Climate change is considered to be the greatest threat to human rights of our generation. This chapter in the textbook International Human Rights Law discusses the challenges posed by climate change and mitigation measures to the enjoyment of human rights and the obligations that states have under international human rights law to respond to these challenges. It introduces international climate change law and how this has developed to accommodate human rights concerns. The chapter ends by surveying the recent turn to national and international litigation, whereby human rights arguments have been deployed to force states to adequately respond to climate change.
Climate Change
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Theme(s)
Net zero & sustainable development
Net zero & sustainable development
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Chapter
Chapter
Author(s)
Rajamani, Lavanya
Rajamani, Lavanya
Year(s)
2022
2022
Oxford University Press
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