Climate Change and Human Rights: How? Where? When?

CIGI Papers, No. 82, November 2015

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 45/2016

20 Pages Posted: 9 Apr 2016 Last revised: 17 May 2016

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Basil E. Ugochukwu

Conestoga College; Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Date Written: 2015

Abstract

Climate change poses a threat to several internationally recognized human rights, including the rights to food, a livelihood, health, a healthy environment, access to water and the rights to work and to cultural life. Actions taken to mitigate and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change have to be centred on human rights. In negotiations for a binding international climate change instrument, nation states have been called upon to fully respect human rights in all climate-related actions. As important as this demand is, there is also the need to describe and plan how human rights can be integrated into international, national, subnational and corporate climate change strategies. This paper analyzes a few examples of national, subnational and corporate climate change policies to show how they have either enshrined human rights principles, or failed to do so.

Keywords: Climate Change, Human Rights, Language, States, Corporations, Policies

Suggested Citation

Ugochukwu, Basil Emeka, Climate Change and Human Rights: How? Where? When? (2015). CIGI Papers, No. 82, November 2015, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 45/2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2760399

Basil Emeka Ugochukwu (Contact Author)

Conestoga College ( email )

299 Doon Valley Drive
Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4M4
Canada

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) ( email )

57 Erb Street West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6C2
Canada

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