Climate change and human rights

Climate change undoubtedly poses unprecedented challenges for international law and the international community. The human face of climate change is surprisingly absent in these documents. While a human rights framework can supplement the ecocentric approach adopted by environmental treaties, including those on climate change. The disconnect between climate change and human rights is recognized by scholars: In spite of these commonalities, bold measures to effectively coordinate the climate change and human rights agendas are growing in isolation from one another. In the climate change regime, a concrete rights-based approach is mostly absent from programs that deal with the impact of climate change and related measures on food security. The documents adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are highly technical, sterile and make only a passing reference to human rights. The human face of climate change is surprisingly absent.