Climate Change and Human Rights: An International and Comparative Law Perspective (Routledge Research in International Environmental Law) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138783218 ISBN 13: 9781138783218

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights? Should fundamental rights constrain climate policies? Scientific evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions contribute to increasing atmospheric temperatures, soon passing the compromising threshold of 2° C. Consequences such as Typhoon Haiyan prove that climate alteration has the potential to significantly impair basic human needs. Although the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and human rights regulatory regimes have so far proceeded separately, awareness is arising about their reciprocal implications. Based on tripartite fundamental obligations, this volume explores the relationship between climate change and interdependent human rights, through the lens of an international and comparative perspective. Along the lines of the metaphor of the ‘wall’, the research ultimately investigates the possibility of overcoming the divide between universal rights and climate change, and underlying barriers.

This book aims to be a useful resource not only for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students in international, comparative, environmental law and politics and human rights, but also for the wider public.

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About the Author

Ottavio Quirico is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England, Australia.

Mouloud Boumghar is Professor in the Faculty of Law at Université de Picardie, France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138783218
• ISBN 13: 9781138783218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Quirico Ottavio, Boumghar Mouloud