Volume
22
Issue
2
First Page
331
Abstract
Symposium: The Confluence of Human Rights and the Environment INTRODUCTION: According to John Holdren, the Science Advisor to President Obama, humanity can only respond to climate change in three ways. We can mitigate climate change, for example by reducing greenhouse gas emissions; we can adapt to climate change, for example by defending our coastlines; or we can suffer from climate change. Given current emission levels and projected climate change impacts, we are inevitably going to do some of all three. A human rights approach, the subject of this Article, puts the focus on those who will suffer from climate change, in the hopes of building the political will to compel humanity to put more resources into both adapting and mitigating climate change.
Repository Citation
David Hunter,
Human Rights Implications for the Climate Negotiations,
22
Oregon Review of International Law
331
(2010).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/1626