Climate change violates human rights
By: by Theodor Rathgeber ; edited by the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Contributors: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Series: Publication series on ecology / Heinrich Böll Stiftung -- v. 6; Publication series on ecology -- v. 6.
Publisher: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
ISBN-13: 9783869280158
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Climatic changes; Human rights; Environmental aspects
Work titles: Klimawandel verletzt Menschenrechte
Description: It is mainly the inhabitants of the global South who suffer from the effects of climate change. They are faced with the destruction of their living space and the violation of their human rights. At the same time, existing human rights standards offer the possibility of establishing points of reference during international climate negotiations to address such questions as adjustment programs designed to confront the effects of climate change, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, technology transfers, and the future of development. As a frame of reference, human rights standards can serve to accurately evaluate policies and to pinpoint their failures, particularly regarding how these policies affect the world's weakest inhabitants. This publication by the political scientist Theodor Rathgeber uses case examples to illustrate the dangers faced by indigenous peoples in particular, as well as the tools the UN human rights system gives them to support their struggle for just climate policies.
Notes: Title from PDF (viewed Jan. 12, 2010).

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