Human Rights and Climate Change: A Review of the International Legal Dimensions

by Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Lavanya Rajamani, Mac Darrow

This Study explores arguments about the impact of climate change on human rights, examining the international legal frameworks governing human rights and climate change and identifying the relevant synergies and tensions between them. It considers arguments about (i) the human rights impacts of climate change at a macro level and how these impacts are spread disparately across countries; (ii) how climate change impacts human rights enjoyment within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821387200
• ISBN13: 9780821387207
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"