Human rights and climate change is a conceptual and legal framework under which international human rights and their relationship to global warming are...

Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth’s climate system...

concepts such as equality, human rights, collective rights, justice and the historical responsibilities for climate change. Climate justice recognizes that...

information about climate impacts), or human rights (claiming that failure to act on climate change is a failure to protect human rights). Litigants pursuing...

effects on health, the economy, and human rights. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth National Climate Assessment Report found that...

and institutions such as The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School have set their focuses on the intersection of climate change and...

Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an...

effects. The causes and effects of climate change are unrelated in time and space. Anthropogenic climate change is caused mainly by humans burning fossil fuels...

and that the trend is caused by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. Climate change communication research shows that coverage has grown and become...

the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and climate change in 2024. Morgera was born in Trieste and she graduated from her local university...

mitigate the impacts of climate change. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative finds that the climate crisis has worsened human rights conditions moderately...

Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance...

to link climate change and human rights together. The Declaration also sought to change the agenda of the campaign to combat climate change from focusing...

climate change. It is the first climate change litigation in which an international court has ruled that state inaction violates human rights. As part...

Azerbaijan's repressive government, and use of the summit to "greenwash" human rights abuses. She called it "absurd" to hold climate talks in an "authoritarian...

Climate change has led to the United States warming up by 2.6 °F (1.4 °C) since 1970.In 2023, the global average near-surface temperature reached 1.45 °C...

Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change. Climate change mitigation...

Climate change in South Africa is leading to increased temperatures and rainfall variability. Evidence shows that extreme weather events are becoming...

environmental consequences, climate change significantly affects human health, including the realm of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHRs). Nowhere...

Human rights are universally recognized moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both national and...

investigating the causes of climate change for decades. After thousands of studies, the scientific consensus is that it is "unequivocal that human influence has warmed...

of human rights, globally, including adequate financing from those who can best afford it. This requires climate change mitigation, adaptation, and rectification...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. The Council...

an indigenous Climate justice and Human Rights activist. He started activism after experiencing the first hand impacts of the climate crisis in his community...

scientific and technological advances, and human actions to measure, predict, mitigate, and adapt to the effects of global warming and climate change—during...

impacts of climate change on human health, biomes and ecosystem services. Economic analysis of climate change is challenging as climate change is a long-term...

degradation, and water scarcity. Climate change poses numerous risks to human health, livelihoods, political stability, and the sustainable development of...

2013). "The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: displacement, relocation, and human rights". Climate Change. 120 (3): 601–614. Bibcode:2013ClCh...

There are past and present public debates over certain aspects of climate change: how much has occurred in modern times, what causes it, what its effects...

protect human rights. It is the first such tort case taken against a government challenging climate change aspects based on a human rights foundation, and the...