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Climate change and human rights

2 Dec 2015

Central America, Europe and Asia) mentioned the link Instead, the link could be made by assessing the ways between climate change and human rights in reports that climate change affects particular human rights norms transmitted to the UNFCCC and the Human Rights Council already recognized under international human rights law. [...] In a recent essay, of the United Nations and 195 countries have ratified he divided his discussion on the international regime the UNFCCC, the low numbers from the Mary Robinson for the protection of the environment within the human Foundation reveal that the situation leaves a lot to be rights framework into two parts. [...] In the second, the human rights impacts of climate change in general he focused specifically on the human rights implications terms is clearly not the same as stating explicitly how the of climate change (Knox 2015). [...] Proponents of this viewpoint international action on the climate change front, the fact believe this is the very definition of the normative that the draft agreement for COP21 talks of a “facilitative, gap. [...] United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development and the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights One such question is, what is the impact of the lack of of Indigenous Peoples.
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Authors

Ugochukwu, Basil Emeka

Pages
20
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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