2023.04.13.

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Climate change and human rights: an elusive connection

 

Date: 05 April 2023

Climate change is increasingly depicted as a human rights issue. A dozen cases currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights suggest that a state's obligation to protect human rights implies an obligation to limit and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. A widespread discourse suggests that hundreds of millions of "climate refugees" will roam the Earth in the coming decades.