ABSTRACT
This chapter presents theories of intersectionality and the manner in which these have been applied within the context of climate change policies. It highlights the role of the UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies and their increasing engagement with the idea of intersectional discrimination. The chapter shows that contribution of the Human Rights Council and its Special Procedures to the development of intersectional approaches to climate change. It describes the ways in which the UN human rights monitoring mechanisms are beginning to address intersectional forms of inequality and to map some pathways for work by the international human rights system on the issue of intersectionalities within the context of climate change. The chapter examines the potential of intersectionality as an analytical tool and as a form of policy and legislative practice that could be developed to advance discussions within the UN human rights monitoring system on the linkages between climate change, sustainable development and human rights.
