Environmental justice, climate change and human rights : different contributions, different consequences and different capabilities should equal different human rights obligations

dc.contributor.advisor Klabbers, Jan
dc.contributor.author Catalão, Mariana : Seixas Lopes Nunes
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-06T15:01:17Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-06T15:01:17Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description Second semester University: University of Helsinki. Awarded thesis 2019/2020 en_US
dc.description.abstract The current environmental crisis poses itself as one of the biggest threats to the enjoyment of human rights. Everywhere, people´s human rights´ are at risk, however vulnerable communities, particularly the ones in poorer countries, are disproportionately in danger. This higher risk for the poorer population is inversely proportional to contribution towards the environmental crisis, especially focusing on global warming caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, that consequently leads to climate change. The disparity between contribution to the issue of climate change, vulnerability to threats to the enjoyment of human rights, caused by the effects of climate change and capability to prevent these threats, generates an environmental justice problem, that highlights the inequity between the Global North and the Global South. This thesis aims to showcase how human rights law can be used to bridge this gap between developed and developing countries, in order to fulfil environmental justice imperatives. The human rights law instrument pointed out as one of the most apt to address this issue is the concept of extraterritorial human rights obligations of states. The thesis highlights how the use of extraterritorial human rights obligations of states is a legally plausible solution to address climate change and issues arising from environmental injustice, analysing positions of international stakeholders and respected doctrine, that support the imposition of these obligations. Finally, a practical way of operationalising the imposition of extraterritorial human rights obligations, in the field of climate change, is superficially presented, through the proposal of a liability scheme that reverts in favour of those most affected by climate change. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11825/1759
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/662
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2019/2020;
dc.subject environment en_US
dc.subject human rights en_US
dc.subject climatic changes en_US
dc.subject developing countries en_US
dc.subject international obligations en_US
dc.subject global warming
dc.title Environmental justice, climate change and human rights : different contributions, different consequences and different capabilities should equal different human rights obligations en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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