Climate Change and Human Rights

Authors

Michael Burger, Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change LawFollow
Jessica A. Wentz, Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change LawFollow

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

This report, commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), describes the nexus between climate change, environmental degradation, and the impairment of fundamental human rights, such as the rights to food, water, housing, and life. It explains how governments and other actors can address climate change in a manner consistent with their obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfill human rights. The report was released during COP21 to help inform the development of the Paris Agreement.

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Law

Recommended Citation

Michael Burger & Jessica A. Wentz, Climate Change and Human Rights, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School & United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), December 2015 (2015).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climate_change/119

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