Human Rights and Climate Change A Review of the International Legal Dimensions

• Main Author: Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Mac Darrow, Lavanya Rajamani
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Herndon World Bank 2011; World Bank Publications; The World Bank
• Edition: 1
• Series: World Bank Studies
• Subjects: ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADEQUATE FOOD; ADEQUATE PROTECTION; AFFIRMATIVE ACTION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; APPLICABLE LAW; ARBITRARY DETENTION; ARMED CONFLICTS; ATMOSPHERE; BASES; BASIS OF RACE; CARBON; CHILD DEATH; CHILD PORNOGRAPHY; CHILD PROSTITUTION; CLEAN TECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS; CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS; CLIMATE DISASTERS; CLIMATE POLICIES; CLIMATE RESPONSE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COLORS; COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE; CULTURAL RIGHTS; DEGRADING TREATMENT; DESERTIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DEVELOPMENT GOALS; DISABILITY; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTERS; DISCRIMINATION; DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN; DISEASES; DISSEMINATION; DOMESTIC LAW; DRINKING WATER; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT; ECONOMIC RIGHTS; ELDERLY; EMISSION; EMISSION REDUCTION; EMISSION REDUCTION MEASURES; EMISSIONS; EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; Environmental law; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EQUAL PARTICIPATION; ETHICAL PRINCIPLES; EXPOSURE; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; FLOODS; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; FOREST; FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION; FOSSIL FUELS; FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE; FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS; FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS; FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS; FUTURE GENERATIONS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; GENOCIDE; GHG; GHGS; GLACIERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL COMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; GOOD FAITH; GREENHOUSE; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROUNDS OF RACE; HEALTH BURDEN; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN BEINGS; HUMAN COMMUNITIES; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN DIGNITY; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN NEEDS; HUMAN RIGHT; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS; HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES; HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS; HUMAN WELFARE; ICE SHEETS; ILL HEALTH; ILLNESS; IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE; INCOME INEQUALITY; INDIGENOUS GROUPS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL COVENANT; INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS; INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; International humanitarian law; INTERNATIONAL LAW; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION; INTERNATIONAL TREATIES; IPCC; Kyoto Protocol; LABOUR MARKET; LAND DEGRADATION; LARGE POPULATIONS; LAW; LEADING CAUSES; LEGAL AUTHORITY; LEGAL FRAMEWORK; LEGAL OBLIGATION; LEGAL STATUS; Legislation; LIFESTYLES; LINGUISTIC MINORITIES; LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES; MALARIA; MANDATES; MENTAL HEALTH; Methodology; MIGRANT; MIGRANT WORKERS; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; MINORITY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL BORDERS; NATIONAL LEVEL; NATIONAL LEVELS; NATIONAL SECURITY; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURAL RESOURCES; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NUMBER OF PEOPLE; NUTRITION; OZONE; PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN; PEACE; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; PERSONAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL INTEGRITY; POLICY RESEARCH; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL RIGHTS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROUPS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH; PRIMARY EDUCATION; PROGRESS; Psychology; Psychology, Experimental; QUALITY OF WATER; RACIAL DISCRIMINATION; REGIONAL AGREEMENTS; RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; RESPECT; RESPONSIBILITIES OF STATES; RIGHT TO EDUCATION; RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE; RIGHT TO LIFE; RIGHTS OF PERSONS; RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; RIGHTS OF WOMEN; RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE; SAFE DRINKING WATER; SANITATION; SCENARIOS; SEA LEVEL; SOCIAL COUNCIL; SOCIAL POLICIES; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIAL SERVICES; SPECIES; STORM SURGES; STORMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE; TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES; TREATIES; TREATY; TROPICAL CYCLONES; UNEP; UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES; VULNERABILITY; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLIES; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL LAW; LEGAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; VULNERABLE GROUPS; OBLIGATIONS; ADAPTATION; MITIGATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERNATIONAL LAW; EQUITY
• ISBN: 0821387200; 9780821387207
• DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8720-7

The study includes a conceptual overview of the link between climate impacts and human rights, focused on the relevant legal obligations underpinning the international law frameworks governing both human rights and climate change. As such it makes a significant contribution to the global debate on climate change and human rights by offering a comprehensive analysis of the international legal dimensions of this intersection. The study helps advance an understanding of what is meant, in legal and policy terms, by the human rights impacts of climate change through examples of specific substantive rights. It gives a legal and theoretic perspective on the connection between human rights and climate change along three dimensions: first, human rights may affect the enjoyment of human rights. Second, measures to address human rights may impact the realization of rights and third, that human rights have potential relevance to policy and operational responses to climate change, and may promote resilience to climate change, including in developing countries in a way that may help sustainable development. This study effectively consolidates knowledge from the fields of international human rights law, international law governing climate change and international environmental law, building on the existing work of the United Nation (UN) office of the high commissioner on human rights, the UN human rights council and the international council on human rights policy. Although it maintains a legal focus, the study has benefited from the input of a host of international experts from other disciplines as well.