Ben L Parr is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Project. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Melbourne and is author of the book, Australian Climate Policy and Diplomacy: Government-Industry Discourses. Between 2015 and 2018, he provided policy analysis and advice on the Paris climate agreement to former US Vice President the Hon Al Gore and his policy team. He has also worked on subnational climate and energy policy. Between 2011 and 2012 (during the Libya intervention), he worked as Assistant to key R2P architect the Hon Gareth Evans AC KC, and in 2023 published the book, Climate Change Action and The Responsibility to Protect: A Common Cause.

• CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONPART I: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ATROCITIES: THE HISTORY CHAPTER 1 A History of Climatic Change and AtrocitiesCHAPTER 2 Efforts to Curb Global Warming and Prevent AtrocitiesCHAPTER 3 Climate Change and R2P: Towards IntegrationPART II: CLIMATE ACTION AND R2P'S OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORKCHAPTER 4 Climate Action and the Responsibility to PreventCHAPTER 5 Climate Action and the Responsibility to ReactCHAPTER 6 Climate Action and the Responsibility to RebuildCONCLUSIONINDEX

"Without diluting or diverting the core message of ‘R2P’ – designed specifically to energize the world’s response to genocide and other heinous mass atrocity crimes – Parr creatively applies its principles and methodology to meeting the existential challenge of climate change. A thoughtful, stimulating, practical, and very-readable exercise in the cross-fertilization of ideas." Gareth Evans, Former Australian Foreign Minister, President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group and author of ‘The Responsibility to Protect’