Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world. The Paris Climate Agreement adopted in December 2015 recognized the necessity for governments to take into consideration their human rights obligations when taking climate action. However, important gaps remain in understanding how human rights can be used in practice to develop and implement effective and equitable solutions to climate change at multiple levels of governance.

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to offer a timely and comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges for integrating human rights in diverse areas and forms of global climate governance. The first half of the book explores how human rights principles and obligations can be used to reconceive climate governance and shape responses to particular aspects of climate change. The second half of the book identifies lessons in the integration of human rights in climate advocacy and governance and sets out future directions in this burgeoning domain.

Featuring a diverse range of contributors and case studies, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, practitioners and policy makers with an interest in climate law and governance, human rights and international environmental law.

Sébastien Duyck is a Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, USA, and an affiliated researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law / Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.

Sébastien Jodoin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Canada, and an Associate Member of the McGill School of Environment.

Alyssa Johl is a founding member of the Climate Rights Collective. She previously served as a Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, USA.