Human Rights and the Paris Agreement's Implementation Guidelines: Opportunities to Develop a Rights-based Approach
The inclusion of references to human rights in the Paris Agreement was celebrated as a milestone towards greater integration of human rights in environmental and climate governance. Beyond their symbolic value, the significance of these provisions however depends on the extent to which they inform t...
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/28167 2023-05-15T15:51:55+02:00 Human Rights and the Paris Agreement's Implementation Guidelines: Opportunities to Develop a Rights-based Approach Duyck, Sébastien Lennon, Erika Obergassel, Wolfgang Savaresi, Annalisa University of Lapland Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) University of Wuppertal, Germany Law orcid:0000-0002-4255-3696 2018-12-31 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28167 https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2018/3/5 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/28167/3/2018CCLR191.pdf http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/28167/1/Duyck-etal-CCLR-2018.pdf en eng Lexxion Verlag Duyck S, Lennon E, Obergassel W & Savaresi A (2018) Human Rights and the Paris Agreement's Implementation Guidelines: Opportunities to Develop a Rights-based Approach. Carbon and Climate Law Review, 12 (3), pp. 191-202. https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2018/3/5 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28167 doi:10.21552/cclr/2018/3/5 1042373 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/28167/3/2018CCLR191.pdf http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/28167/1/Duyck-etal-CCLR-2018.pdf [2018CCLR191.pdf] The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository. Please use the Request a Copy feature at the foot of the Repository record to request a copy directly from the author. You can only request a copy if you wish to use this work for your own research or private study. [Duyck-etal-CCLR-2018.pdf] The publisher has not responded to our queries therefore this work cannot be made publicly available in this Repository. Please use the Request a Copy feature at the foot of the Repository record to request a copy directly from the author. You can only request a copy if you wish to use this work for your own research or private study. http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserved 2999-12-31 [2018CCLR191.pdf] The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository therefore there is an embargo on the full text of the work. [Duyck-etal-CCLR-2018.pdf] The publisher has not responded to our queries. This work cannot be made publicly available in this Repository therefore there is an embargo on the full text of the work. Journal Article VoR - Version of Record AM - Accepted Manuscript 2018 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2018/3/5 2022-06-13T18:42:45Z The inclusion of references to human rights in the Paris Agreement was celebrated as a milestone towards greater integration of human rights in environmental and climate governance. Beyond their symbolic value, the significance of these provisions however depends on the extent to which they inform the implementation of the Paris Agreement both at the national and international levels. This article takes stock of the integration of human rights in climate governance and identifies concrete opportunities to ensure that human rights considerations are included in the Paris implementation guidelines to be adopted at the Conference of the Parties in Katowice in December 2018, promoting climate action that aligns with Parties’ human rights obligations. We first consider the relevance of human rights to climate action and the incremental recognition of these linkages in the international climate regime – both in the lead up to the adoption of the Paris Agreement and since. We then consider in specific terms how human rights could inform five key dimensions of the Paris Agreement’s implementation guidelines: guidance for nationally determined contributions, adaptation communications, transparency framework, global stocktake, and the Article 6 mechanisms. The article reflects on past experience of how climate policy impacts human rights and on proposals put forward in the context of the negotiations of the implementation guidelines, and concludes with recommendations on a rights-based approach to implementing the Paris Agreement. Article in Journal/Newspaper Carbon and Climate Law Review University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Carbon & Climate Law Review 12 3 191 202 |
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The inclusion of references to human rights in the Paris Agreement was celebrated as a milestone towards greater integration of human rights in environmental and climate governance. Beyond their symbolic value, the significance of these provisions however depends on the extent to which they inform the implementation of the Paris Agreement both at the national and international levels. This article takes stock of the integration of human rights in climate governance and identifies concrete opportunities to ensure that human rights considerations are included in the Paris implementation guidelines to be adopted at the Conference of the Parties in Katowice in December 2018, promoting climate action that aligns with Parties’ human rights obligations. We first consider the relevance of human rights to climate action and the incremental recognition of these linkages in the international climate regime – both in the lead up to the adoption of the Paris Agreement and since. We then consider in specific terms how human rights could inform five key dimensions of the Paris Agreement’s implementation guidelines: guidance for nationally determined contributions, adaptation communications, transparency framework, global stocktake, and the Article 6 mechanisms. The article reflects on past experience of how climate policy impacts human rights and on proposals put forward in the context of the negotiations of the implementation guidelines, and concludes with recommendations on a rights-based approach to implementing the Paris Agreement. |
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Duyck S, Lennon E, Obergassel W & Savaresi A (2018) Human Rights and the Paris Agreement's Implementation Guidelines: Opportunities to Develop a Rights-based Approach. Carbon and Climate Law Review, 12 (3), pp. 191-202. https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2018/3/5 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28167 doi:10.21552/cclr/2018/3/5 1042373 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/28167/3/2018CCLR191.pdf http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/28167/1/Duyck-etal-CCLR-2018.pdf |
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