Did the Paris Agreement Fail to Incorporate Human Rights in Operative Provisions?

During the negotiations that led up initiatives that emphasize these linkages include to the signing of the Paris Agreement in December the report on the human rights obligations relating 2015, states included an explicit reference to to climate change, prepared by John Knox, the human rights only in the preamble of the legal United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) norm, negotiating other dire [...] The outcome of environment;2 the report, Achieving Justice and negotiations raised the question of whether states Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption, by have missed an opportunity to positively and the International Bar Association, Climate Change unquestionably secure a rights approach to climate Justice and Human Rights Task Force;3 the Draft action post-2020. [...] Using a contextual analysis of Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change, by other international law developments that occurred the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights alongside the adoption of the Paris Agreement in and the Environment;4 the French Declaration of 2015, especially the international agreement on Humankind Rights, introduced by President Francois the Sustainable Develo [...] These that “to ensure that it has a real impact, the new mechanisms will incorporate explicit human rights climate accord should make reference to the safeguards and considerations to bring them in respect, guarantee, promotion and fulfillment line with the sustainability requirements of the of human rights, both in the preamble and in the 21 operative provisions of the Paris Agreement. [...] The Paris Agreement préparatoires and the interpretation of the treaty.30 is the first multilateral environmental agreement The definition of the nature of the human rights to include an explicit reference to human rights in reference in the preamble of the Paris Agreement its preamble.