Prawa człowieka a zmiany klimatu – perspektywa Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych
Human rights and climate change – the UN perspective

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyse the UN acquis in the area of climate change and human rights and the inclusion of provisions on human rights in international agreements on climate change adopted within the UN. For this purpose, the utmost attention is given to the Human Rights Council resolutions on climate change and human rights adopted between 2008–2016 and the Paris Agreement. The Author of the article concludes that the Paris Agreement constitutes a step forward towards the promotion of the inclusion of provisions on human rights in international agreements on climate change. However, its provisions on human rights contained in the preamble are mostly vague. Further negotiations are necessary to give precise, concrete meaning to the purposes set out therein. Most notably, steps are necessary to ensure that international funding for mitigation projects does not lead to projects without adequate human rights safeguards. As so far its direct impact on the protection of human rights in climate action seems very limited.

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