The Paris Climate Agreement and the Protection of Human Rights in a Changing Climate

Impacts of the Changing Ocean-Sea Ice System on the Key Forage Fish Arctic Cod (Boreogadus Saida) and Subsistence Fisheries in the Western Canadian Arctic—Evaluating Linked Climate, Ecosystem and Economic (CEE) Models

“…Climate change and ocean acidification impacts in the Arctic threaten various internationally recognized human and Indigenous rights (Duyck, 2015;de Windt et al, 2016). These rights, some set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007include, among others, the rights to food, subsistence, culture and human health (McCrimmon, 2016;Rapporteur, 2017).…”

The Paris Agreement's Approach Toward Climate Change Loss and Damage

“…However, according to the PA, L&D issues shall no longer be treated in the field of adaptation and are referred to as beyond the adaptation approach (Broberg 2020b, 212). The PA is the first global climate change agreement that includes an explicit reference to human rights, confirming the international community's recognition that human rights obligations apply in the context of climate change (Duyck 2015, 5). The preamble and the main body of the PA recognized that climate change can affect several human rights 1 .…”

Actors and law-making in international environmental law

“…Although the Inter-American Commission rejected the Inuit petition, it offered one of the first linkages between climate change and human rights. Years later, this linkage was recognized in the Paris Agreement, which includes an explicit reference to human rights, and thus confirms the applicability of human rights obligations in the context of global warming (Duyck, 2015). Indeed, the adoption of the Paris Agreement has been followed by 'a burgeoning strand of climate change litigation' (Savaresi, Cismas and Hartmann, 2017).…”