ABSTRACT
This chapter examines whether and how consideration of human rights law and priorities, which have hitherto been largely absent, might rebalance or reorient these initial questions. Human rights and climate change draw on quite different vocabularies, each with their own referential history and associations: terms familiar from one register may jar in the other, or mean different things to different audiences. The close relation between climate change and human rights vulnerability has a common economic root. Climate change adaptation' refers to actions taken to adjust lives and livelihoods to the new conditions brought about by warming temperatures and other physical and weather-related events associated with climate change. The human rights laid out in the documents are generally referred to as 'civil and political', on the one hand, and 'social, economic and cultural', on the other hand.
