Climate change and human rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Bell (0000-0002-9944-1097, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 159-170 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.218 |
| OpenAlex | W1807399129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 28 |
Human rights have not played a significant role in the international law and politics of climate change to date. However, there has been increasing interest among legal scholars and moral and political philosophers in a human rights approach to climate change. This review focuses on the new literature in moral and political philosophy that has begun to explore the connections between human rights and climate change. The attractions of a human rights approach to climate change are explained. The idea of a moral conception of human rights is introduced and distinguished from human rights recognized in international and national law. The key features of moral human rights are identified and an important distinction between negative and positive rights is explained. The three main arguments in the literature connecting human rights and climate change are introduced and critical discussions of them are presented. The first argument (associated with Steve Vanderheiden) claims that there is a human right to a stable climate, which can be derived from a human right to an adequate environment. The second argument (associated with Simon Caney) claims that anthropogenic climate change violates basic human (negative) rights to life, health, and subsistence. The third argument claims that there is a human right to emit greenhouse gases. This argument has two versions. The first version claims that there is a human right to equal per capita emissions. The second version claims that there is a human right to subsistence emissions. WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:159–170. doi: 10.1002/wcc.218 This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Human Rights Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change
Argument (complex analysis · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Geography · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Right to property · Rights of Nature · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Environmental law and policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Ecology
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Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement
How climate volatility influences human rights
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Human rights, vulnerability, and climate migration in the anthropocene
Climate justice
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Atmospheric Justice
Ethics and Global Climate Change
Rights
The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification. A Reflexive Approach
On Human Rights
World Poverty and Human Rights
The Concept of Human Dignity and the Realistic Utopia of Human Rights
Justice and the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions
Jumping on the Human Rights Bandwagon
Does anthropogenic climate change violate human rights
The impact of climate change on indigenous people – the implications for the cultural, spiritual, economic and legal rights of indigenous people
Human Rights Versus Emissions Rights
Human Rights and Climate Change
In What Sense are Human Rights Political? A Preliminary Exploration
Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions
Women and Human Development
Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
Human rights, climate change, and discounting
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |