ABSTRACT
Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world. The Paris Climate Agreement adopted in December 2015 recognized the necessity for governments to take into consideration their human rights obligations when taking climate action. However, important gaps remain in understanding how human rights can be used in practice to develop and implement effective and equitable solutions to climate change at multiple levels of governance.
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to offer a timely and comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges for integrating human rights in diverse areas and forms of global climate governance. The first half of the book explores how human rights principles and obligations can be used to reconceive climate governance and shape responses to particular aspects of climate change. The second half of the book identifies lessons in the integration of human rights in climate advocacy and governance and sets out future directions in this burgeoning domain.
Featuring a diverse range of contributors and case studies, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, practitioners and policy makers with an interest in climate law and governance, human rights and international environmental law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Conceptual foundations
chapter 3|12 pages
Climate change and human rights
chapter 4|15 pages
Local rights claims in international negotiations
chapter 5|15 pages
Rights, representation and recognition
part II|92 pages
International framework
chapter 10|20 pages
From Copenhagen to Paris at the UN Human Rights Council
part III|71 pages
Early lessons
chapter 11|16 pages
Look before you jump
chapter 12|16 pages
Rights, justice, and REDD+
part IV|62 pages
Stakeholder perspectives
chapter 16|12 pages
From Marrakesh to Marrakesh
chapter 19|14 pages
Human rights, differentiated responsibilities?
chapter 21|7 pages
Securing workers’ rights in the transition to a low-carbon world
part V|58 pages
Regional case studies
chapter 22|11 pages
‘There Is No Time Left’
chapter 26|7 pages
Integrating a human rights–based approach to address climate change impacts in Latin America
chapter 28|10 pages
Climate change and human rights in the Commonwealth Caribbean
part VI|64 pages
Future directions