Redressing Historical Responsibility for the Unjust Precarities of Climate Change in the Present

A greener CEDAW: Adopting a women's substantive equality approach to climate change

“…129 While the CEDAW Committee acknowledges the global unequal consequences of climate change and their relation to women's rights, there is little discussion of the responsibility of states for climate change. 130 There is only one instance where the CEDAW Committee singles out a state from the Global North, Australia, for providing limited humanitarian assistance to surrounding small islands. 131 It could go further and assess 'differing contributions to global degradation' and shine the spotlight on the 'historic and moral responsibility of States'.…”