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Climate Change and Human Rights

The impacts of climate change to some especially vulnerable communities, in terms of their capacity to effectively achieve sustainable development and realize their human rights, is extremely worrisome and promises to worsen with present trends in climate change evolution.

Immediate attention to vulnerable communities, regions, and States, is urgently needed in international climate change negotiations if they are to have an equitable and balanced evolution, not only for global emitters, but also for impacted States and vulnerable communities.

A human rights framework and development analysis of climate change impacts provide an effective lens through which to help States prioritize the necessary actions to adapt to and mitigate the social impacts of climate change.

CEDHA's Climate Change and Human Rights Initiative aims to:

• Explore how climate change impacts affect human rights and sustainable development
• Disseminate a human rights based approach to addressing climate change impacts
• Draw attention to vulnerable groups, disproportionately burdened by climate impacts
• Inform climate change negotiators and relevant actors of the benefits of a rights based approach to climate problems
• Steer present climate change negotiations towards more equitable adaptation and mitigation results.

Resources:

• CEDHA's Policy Paper on Human Rights and Climate Change
  

Normative Framework for Climate Negotiations:

• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Kyoto Protocol

Key Documents in Climate Negotiations

• IPCC Reports
  • IPPC Wkg Grp III Summary for Policymakers
  • IPPC Wkg Grp II Summary for Policymakers
• Stern Review

Ozone/Montreal Protocol

• Text of the Montreal Protocol
• Commitments of Accelerated HCFC Phaseouts
  

Background Materials and other Documents

 

• Malé Declaration on the Human Dimensión of Global Climate Change

• Climate Litigation research published - Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie)
  
• Pacific Human Rights and Climate Change

• Climate Change and Human Rights. By Wolfgang Sachs

• Interactions Between Global Change and Human Health. Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Paper 106, 2004.

• Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice

• Forests, Climate Change and Human Rights

• The Climate of Poverty: Facts, Fears and Hopes. Christian AID - 2006

• Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor Through Adaptation (OECD) – Part I

• Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor Through Adaptation (OECD) – Part II

• Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development (OECD)

• Climate Change Deepens Poverty and Challenges Poverty Reduction Strategies (DFID)

• Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Maldives at Human Rights Council 9/2007

• Climate Change and Development Links. IIED

• Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries. Pew Center

• Reducing Risks to Cities from Climate Change: An Environmental or a Development Agenda

• Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations

• Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change: The Role of the Finance Sector

• Climate Change and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

• Global Warrming and Human Rights: A Case Study from the Arctic [Presented at the Kagawa University Symposium on Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, December 2002] (Goldberg)

• Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. By Jan Salik and Anja Byg. University of Oxford and Missouri Botanical Garden. May 2007. A Tyndall Center Publication.[see bibliographic reference of this paper, as it is very rich; several items in this bibliography are taken from this paper:

• The Economics of Climate Change. Stern N. (Ed.). 2006. Stern Review.

News

UN Adopts Resolution on Climate Change and Human Rights

 

Historic Agreement Reached on Ozone and Climate Change

 

Video Climate Change and Justice – Mary Robinson (January 5, 2007)

 

Contact

For more information contact Jorge Daniel Taillant:jdtaillant@cedha.org.ar