Human Rights and Climate Change

Contents

Abstract

Chapter 1 Introduction
A. The Global Warming and its Causes
B. Effects and Consequences
C. Copenhagen’s 2 Degree Goal

Chapter 2 Climate Change as a Legal Matter
A. Human Rights Implications of Climate Change
B. Human Rights
I. The Human Rights System
II. Specific International Human Rights
in the Context of Climate Change
1. The Right to Life
2. The Right to Food
3. The Right to Water
4. The Right to Adequate Housing
5. The Right to Health
6. The Right to Self-Determination, and Indigenous Rights
7. The Right to Information, Participation, and Access to Decision Making
III. Human Rights-based Cases
on Environmental Issues
1. Lopez Ostra v Spain
2. Oneryildiz v Turkey
3. Budayeva v Russia
4. Hungary v Slovakia

Chapter 3 Systematic Analysis of the Human Rights Approach
A. Criticism and Evaluation on the International Human Rights Approach
I. Legally Protected Goods and Legal Norms
II. Violating Actions
III. Causation and Accountability
IV. Compensation, Sentences, and Remedies
V. General Criticism on the International Human Rights Approach
B. Alternative or Additional Approach: The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

Chapter 4 Conclusion
A. Conclusion on the International Human Rights Approach - Synopsis of the Summarized Criticisms and Potentials
B. Mutual Measures of Equalization and Non-Claim-Based Remedies

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