Sami Rights in Finland’s Climate Act
Implementing a Human Rights-Based Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21766278 |
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| Authors | Leena Hansen (University of Lapland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-76 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Northern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1654-5915 • E-ISSN: 2004-4658 |
| Publisher | Umea University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.36368/jns.v17i1.1234 |
| OpenAlex | W4411415747 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This article concerns climate change and its alarming, accelerating consequences and impacts on human rights—in particular, the rights of persons and groups, such as Indigenous peoples, in unique, vulnerable situations. The rights of the Sami people are threatened by effects of climate change as well as resource and energy developments aimed at addressing climate change in the name of green transition—a situation similar to that of many Arctic Indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples, including the Sami, have demanded justice and adoption of a human rights-based approach as acknowledged in the Paris Agreement, with respect to their rights, in climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. The scope of this article is to study, in the context of Finland’s new Climate Act (2022), the national implementation of the international framework of a justice and human rights-based approach, in relation to the Sami people’s rights recognized in Finland’s Climate Act and climate policies
Arctic · Climate change · Climate justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Habitat · Human rights · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Threatened species · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Environmental law and policy · Law · Ecology
Summary for Policymakers
The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979
Climate Justice
Unpredictable Consequences of Sami Self-determination
From environmental to climate justice
Connecting climate justice and adaptation planning
International Human Rights in an Environmental Horizon
Justice in energy transitions
Climate Change 2022 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Critical climate justice
| Highly cited | No |
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