Human Rights and Climate Change

Abstract

The human rights approach to climate change has been gaining increasing prominence as other means of tackling climate change, most notably inter-state negotiations, consistently underdeliver. Framing the negative effects of climate change in terms of human rights violations can give a strong moral, political, and legal standing to those affected by recognizing the harm they suffer now or will suffer in the future, and by providing them with political and legal tools to seek remedies. Still, human rights are often said to be unsuitable to protect a range of important interests set back by climate change due to their individualistic and anthropocentric normative foundations as well as their potential to conflict with other morally important considerations. This panel will revisit the normative foundations of human rights and their legal implications, and it will also examine the merits of alternative approaches to protecting important interests against various threats generated by climate change.

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