Climate Change and State Responsibility for Human Rights Violations: Causation and Imputation

• Main Authors: Quirico, Ottavio, School of Law, orcid:0000-0001-8268-7501
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2018
• Subjects: International Law (excl. International Trade Law); Rata; inuit
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26891

The Paris Agreement provides that States ‘should respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights’ in ‘taking action to address climate change’. Should therefore States be held responsible for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in breach of fundamental obligations, that...