Human Rights and Climate Change

Stephen Humphreys is Research Director at the International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), an independent research institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and has published widely on human rights.

• Introduction: the human rights dimensions of climate change Stephen Humphreys; Part I. Rights Perspectives on Global Warming: 1. Competing justice claims: human rights, climate harms and international disorder Stephen Humphreys; 2. Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds Simon Caney; 3. Equitable utilization of the atmosphere: a rights-based approach to climate change? Dinah Shelton; 4. Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability Peter Newell; 5. Rethinking human rights: the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse Sam Adelman; Part II. Priorities, Risks and Inequities in Global Responses: 6. The Kyoto protocol and vulnerability: equity and human rights dimensions Philippe Cullet; 7. Forests, climate change and human rights: managing risks and trade-offs Frances Seymour; 8. Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla; 9. Human rights and vulnerability to climate change Jon Barnett; 10. Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality Kye Mesa Barnard and John Mutter; Part III. Conclusion: 11. Conceiving justice: articulating common causes in parallel regimes Stephen Humphreys; Appendix: climate change impacts on human rights.

'What this collection does for the first time, however, is think through the human rights implications of climate change and ask how the substantial body of international human rights law and experience relates to that phenomenon. … As the present collection progressively clarifies, if we build human rights criteria into our future planning, we will better understand who is at risk and how we should act to protect them.' Mary Robinson, President of Realising Rights: The Ethical Globalisation Initiative