Human Rights Protection in view of Climate Change Impacts
Human Rights Protection in view of Climate Change Impacts

Summary/Abstract: Climate change as well as state’s activities and failures related to climate change may harm human rights. The protection of human rights violated by national activities or failures related to climate change may be provided by standard domestic and international mechanisms of human rights protection. These standard mechanisms have to be supplemented by various forms of international cooperation that would enable developing countries to fulfill their obligation of protection of human rights in view of climate change impacts. In the most drastic cases of violation of human rights, caused by the sinking of low-lying countries into the sea, standard domestic and international mechanisms of protection do not suffice. The protection of human rights in such drastic cases requires the establishment of a new legal relationship between the international community and environmental refugees via a new convention on environmental refugees and its implementing body.

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