Human Rights and Climate Change

Introduction: the human rights dimensions of climate change Stephen Humphreys; Part I. Rights Perspectives on Global Warming: 1. Competing justice claims: human rights, climate harms and international disorder Stephen Humphreys; 2. Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds Simon Caney; 3. Equitable utilization of the atmosphere: a rights-based approach to climate change? Dinah Shelton; 4. Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability Peter Newell; 5. Rethinking human rights: the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse Sam Adelman; Part II. Priorities, Risks and Inequities in Global Responses: 6. The Kyoto protocol and vulnerability: equity and human rights dimensions Philippe Cullet; 7. Forests, climate change and human rights: managing risks and trade-offs Frances Seymour; 8. Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla; 9. Human rights and vulnerability to climate change Jon Barnett; 10. Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality Kye Mesa Barnard and John Mutter; Part III. Conclusion: 11. Conceiving justice: articulating common causes in parallel regimes Stephen Humphreys; Appendix: climate change impacts on human rights.