Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

Sébastien Duyck is a Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, USA, and an affiliated researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law / Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.Sébastien Jodoin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Canada, and an Associate Member of the McGill School of Environment. Alyssa Johl is a founding member of the Climate Rights Collective. She previously served as a Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, USA.

• Foreword by Sheila Watt-Cloutier Part I Conceptual Foundations 1. Integrating Human Rights in Global Climate Governance: An Introduction 2. Analysing Rights Discourses in the International Climate Regime 3. Climate Change and Human Rights: Fragmentation, Interplay and Institutional Linkages 4. Local Rights Claims in International Negotiations: Transnational Human Rights Networks at the Climate Conferences 5. Rights, Representation and Recognition: Practicing Advocacy for Women and Indigenous Peoples in UN Climate Negotiations Part II International Framework 6. State Responsibility for Human Rights Violations Associated with Climate Change 7. Climate change impacts: human rights in climate adaptation and loss and damage 8. Human Rights and Climate Displacement and Migration 9. Climate Change under Regional Human Rights Systems 10. From Copenhagen to Paris at the UN Human Rights Council: when climate change became a human rights issue Part III. Early Lessons 11. Look before you Jump: Assessing the Potential Influence of the Human Rights Bandwagon on Domestic Climate Policy 12. Rights, Justice, and REDD+: Lessons from Climate Advocacy and Early Implementation in the Amazon Basin 13. Protecting Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Global Climate Governance 14. The Indigenous Rights Framework and Climate Change 15. Using the Paris Agreement's Ambition Ratcheting Mechanisms to Expose Insufficient Protection of Human Rights in Formulating National Climate Policies Part IV. Stakeholder Perspectives 16. From Marrakesh to Marrakesh: the rise of gender equality in the global climate governance and climate action 17. Energy Justice: The intersection of Human Rights and Climate Justice 18. Overlooked and undermined: child rights and climate change 19. Human rights, differentiated responsibilities? Advancing equity and human rights in the Climate Change Regime 20. Climate Justice and Human Rights 21. Securing Workers’ Rights in the Transition to a Low-carbon World: The Just Transition Concept and its Evolution Part V. Regional Case Studies 22. 'There is No Time Left': Climate Change, Environmental Threats, and Human Rights in Turkana County, Kenya 23. Human Rights and Climate Change: Focusing on South Asia 24. Climate Change and the European Court of Human Rights: Future Potentials 25. Are Europeans equal with regard to the health impact of climate change? 26. Integrating a human rights-based approach to address climate change impacts in Latin America: case studies from Bolivia and Peru 27. Connecting Human Rights and Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: The Arctic Angle 28. Climate change and human rights in the Commonwealth Caribbean: case studies of The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago Part VI. Future Directions 29. Mobilizing Human Rights to Combat Climate Change through Litigation 30. Human Rights and Land-Based Carbon Mitigation 31. Climate Change: Human Rights and Private Remedies 32. Towards Responsible Renewable Energy: Assessing 50 wind and hydropower companies’ human rights policies in the context of rising allegations of abuse 33. Intersectionalities, human rights, and climate change: emerging linkages in the practice of the UN human rights monitoring system 34. Climate Change, Human Rights, and Divestment