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Climate Change and Human Rights: Challenges and Prospects

Explore the link between climate change and human rights, examining the international legal framework, migration and displacement issues, and prospects for global solidarity. Discover how Erasmus Mundus higher education can address these challenges.

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Climate Change and Human Rights: Challenges and Prospects

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  1. Outline of Presentation • Climate Change and Human Rights • International Legal Framework • Migration and Displacement Issues • Prospects and Challenges • Global Solidarity: Erasmus Mundus Higher Education and Climate Change

  2. Traditional Approach: Science and Economics Need to Humanize: Giving Climate Change a Human Face Gap in Discourse Climate Change is about People: Forms a Continuum which finds humanity at both ends of spectrum CLIMATE CHANGE

  3. Human Activities Climate Change Human Rights “Human rights cannot be secured in a degraded or polluted environment. The fundamental right to life is threatened by soil degradation and deforestation and by exposures to toxic chemicals, hazardous wastes and contaminated drinking water. Environmental conditions clearly help to determine the extent to which people enjoy their basic rights to life, health, adequate food and housing, and traditional livelihood and culture... and that those who pollute or destroy the natural environment are not just committing a crime against nature, but are violating human rights as well.” - Klaus Töpfer Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

  4. Case in Point: Droughts and Floods

  5. II. Climate Change and the International Legal Order • Realignment of Social Institutions : Managing Climate Change through Institutional Arrangements • Climate Change • Associated with Environmental Protection • Permeated Loose Areas of International Law • Included in Discourse of Environmental and Human Rights Law : concept of sustainability, precautionary principle, principle of causal responsibility, and the need to protect the environment for future generations • Interdisciplinary coupling: political and international legal agreements

  6. International Legal Framework 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference) Establishment of UN Environmental Program (UNEP)

  7. Legal Framework in Europe European Parliament and Council’s Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package (2008) • Reduce overall emissions to at least 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 • Scale up reduction to as much as 30% under new agreements European Court of Human Rights • Lopez-Ostra v. Spain – Right to Privacy • Oneryildiz v Turkey – Right to Life Positive Obligation of States • Significant in CC & HR - where it is often difficult to establish the causal connection between the activities (or omissions) of the state or of private actors who have emitted greenhouse gas and the human rights impact

  8. III. Migration & Displacement • CC and HR: Image of Flight for Survival • implies fleeing for survival as a result of threatened or actual displacement due to -conflicts -contamination of water supplies (as a result of flooding), - risks to food security (due to desertification& aridification) -spread of deadly pathogens (due to increasing temperatures and fluctuating precipitation levels), etc • Linkage between CC and human mobility is complex: • No. of people obliged to move as a result of climate change by the year 2050: from 25 million to one billion.

  9. Legal Gaps (Working Paper by the Informal Group on Migration/ Displacement and Climate Change of the IASC)

  10. Legal Gaps (Working Paper by the Informal Group on Migration/ Displacement and Climate Change of the IASC)

  11. Internally Displaced Persons

  12. Internally Displaced Persons

  13. IV. Prospects and Challenges

  14. V. Erasmus Mundus Higher Education & Climate Change • Inclusion of Climate Change Issues in Curricula to Ensure Continued Discussions/ Solutions • Interdisciplinary Approach • Cooperative Ventures/ Meaningful Collaboration : Scientific , Technical, and Policy Researches/Activities • Sustainability – Strategic and Long Term • Bottom Up/ Top Bottom Approach

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