scholarly journals Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Schroering
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
World System ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Transnational Organizing ◽  
Short Piece

In this short piece, I seek to explore two main questions: 1) How can communities take control over local governance and shape local economic futures?and2) How can local communities effectively band together to support world-system transformation? I examine examples of transnational organizing around water and, specifically, the National Summit on the Human Right to Water held in Abuja, Nigeria in January 2019. A repeated theme at the Summit was the idea that privatization is a threat because the narrative of the profit-based solution of privatization is at odds with the idea that people—and their human right to basic needs like water—come before profit. Privatization is a threat to human rights everywhere,and as climate change progresses resources will become even more scarce, with more of a push from corporations seeking to control and commodify water. One of the most powerful short-term results of this summit, therefore, was how it served as a space forglobalsolidarity buildingaround the human right to water.

scholarly journals The CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON THE HUMAN RIGHT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF A SPECIFIED QUALITY (SAFE, CLEAN, HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT): SOME INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ISSUES

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-112
Author(s):  
Olha Sushyk ◽  
Olena Shompol
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Environmental Agreements ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Right

This article discusses recognition between climate change and human rights at the international level. The analysis shows that despite the UN climate change framework does not adequately address the magnitude of the threat posed by climate change related harm to human rights, domestic, regional or international courts must take account of its provisions in deciding cases. The article argues that the causes for climate cases are diverse, whereby the most often ones are those referring to the competent public authority’s failure to fulfil its obligation to regulate limitations of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  Further identify the links between human rights and environmental protection, were apparent at least from the first international conference on the human environment, held in Stockholm in 1972. More broadly, it demonstrates international environmental agreements, were some aspects of the right to environmental conditions of a specified quality are identify.  This article discusses also theoretical issues of individual environmental rights and the right to environmental safety in Ukraine. Keywords: climate, human rights, environmental, Ukraine

scholarly journals Climate Change, Catholic Social Teaching, and Human Rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Richard W. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Climate Stability

Abstract The development of human rights thinking in the United Nations and the Catholic Church has operated on a separate track from the development of thinking regarding environmental concerns. This paper traces this historical divergence and some factors contributing to this divergence. It argues that climate stability is the most pressing earth system problem and not only should not be neglected by human rights thinkers (as in Catholic circles) or actively resisted in human rights circles (as argued by a prominent academic human rights lawyer); rather, a stable climate system should be considered a basic human right.

Arguing the Right to a Safe Climate under the UN Human Rights System

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-212
Author(s):  
Ademola Oluborode Jegede
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

Abstract The link between climate change and human rights is being made under the instruments as well as charter and treaty bodies constituting the United Nations (UN) human rights system. Despite the efforts, the right to a safe climate does not exist under the UN human rights system. Based on the vulnerability of human populations and the essential compliance with yardsticks for a new human right, the article argues for the creation of the right to a safe climate and advances two approaches by which it can be achieved under the UN human rights system.

scholarly journals Climate Change and Right to Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Mukherjee ◽  
Faizan Mustafa ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
The Right

The Right to Development is a relatively new right in human rights law. Although its roots may be traced to pre-world war era, Right to Development took concrete shape with the passing of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development in 1986. Some renowned academic institutions in India are making recent efforts to make the “Right to Development” a Fundamental Human Right. Climate change poses a direct threat to human rights of people, especially in tropically situated countries of the south (including India), which are coincidentally home to a large number of vulnerable/marginalized people who are considerably poor to concern themselves with issues such as climate change. Due to mounting pressure from least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing countries (SIDSs), international community has lately shown greater interest in establishing a direct link between climate change and human rights. This interest may be a reaction to the recurrent failures in reaching a consensus in the climate change negotiations through mechanical Conference of Parties (COPs). Similar to a bottom-up approach that seems to have worked well for the Paris agreement, it was believed by experts that linking human rights to climate change would shake the conscience of the reluctant parties to act expeditiously. The importance of a human rights–based approach to climate change will be highlighted in the light of two recent developments in the climate change discourse: First, the recognition by scientists of several extreme disaster as climate change events directly violating the human rights of the vulnerable; second, the dilution of the differentiation created between developing and developed nations by the Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) principle in the recent climate change agreements. This paper seeks to establish the efficacy of the human Right to Development (through tools such as Greenhouse Development Rights) in effectuating the third world approaches to the issue of climate change in the global south.

Human Rights, Population, and Climate Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 348-370
Author(s):  
Simon Caney
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Population Size ◽  
World Population ◽  
Reproductive Choice ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
World Population Growth ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between human rights, population and climate change. Some argue that to address climate change it is necessary to implement policies that reduce world population growth and perhaps also population size. This chapter examines two ways of approaching this issue, both of which focus on what human rights people have. One calls for limits on people's human right to reproductive choice. A second approach holds that respecting core human rights will be sufficient to tackle the demographic drivers of climate change. This chapter critically evaluates both accounts and proposes a third one that builds on the second approach but goes beyond it.

Queensland’s Human Rights Act: A New Frontier for Australian Climate Change Litigation?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Bell-James ◽  
Briana Collins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Coal Deposits ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
Australian Climate ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
International Climate

In 2019, the Queensland Parliament enacted a Human Rights Act, enshrining, inter alia, the human right to life. The Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) presents a timely opportunity to open the next chapter in Australia’s climate change litigation history – a human rights-based climate change case. This article will consider the possible characterisation of such a case, drawing on international experience. Ultimately, it will conclude that a rights-based climate change case is feasible in Queensland, and a successful case would have national and international ramifications, due to the potential for Queensland coal deposits to contribute to global climate change. Further, a successful rights-based climate change case in Queensland has the capability to set powerful precedent in the growing body of climate litigation both domestically and internationally, where international climate litigation has been observed as taking a ‘rights turn’.

The Grounds of Climate Justice

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Alix Dietzel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
The Right

Chapter Two defines the grounds of climate justice. Defining the grounds of justice is a key task for any climate justice account because it allows readers to understand what must be normatively prioritised. The grounds of justice in this sense represent the moral underpinnings of the climate justice account, a normative subfloor that must not be crossed. The chapter makes the case for using the human right to health as the non-relational moral minimum that grounds the climate justice position. Chapter Two puts forward that the human right to health provides a strong foundation for a climate justice because it captures the threats climate change poses to humans more comprehensively than other key human rights, including the right to food and water, the right to life, and the right to free movement.

scholarly journals How to Engage with Sustainability Issues We Rarely Experience? A Gamification Model for Collective Awareness Platforms in Water-Related Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenia Koroleva ◽  
Jasminko Novak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Online Experiments ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Collective awareness platforms offer innovative ways to engage citizens in becoming aware of and contributing solutions to sustainability challenges, such as climate change, water scarcity, or extreme weather events. Although such platforms have been successful in engaging citizens to contribute and self-organize during or directly after emergency situations, it has proven rather hard to motivate citizens to participate in preparing their local communities to address sustainability challenges whose effects are likely to be felt in the future and which they have not experienced yet. In this paper, we discuss the development, implementation, and assessment of a gamification model for a collective awareness platform for water-related sustainability challenges. The model is designed to address the motivational drivers of different user types and uses visualization elements to support gamified interaction in a way that relates otherwise intangible, abstract issues to more immediate (short-term), tangible objectives. The model was empirically validated with 507 users through a series of online experiments. The results confirmed a positive motivational effect in a large majority of participants and the suitability of the model to address different user types and various water-related sustainability issues. The findings will inform the design of gamification models for collective awareness platforms in sustainability-related domains.

scholarly journals Social and Climate Change: Impact on Human Behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Koentjoro Soeparno ◽  
Budi Andayani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Revolution

The nature of social change occurs at the center of human consciousness and based on a commitment, it cannot be reversed, rejected, or canceled (Vago, 2004). Therefore, there are economic and political orders as a result of conflict of ideologies within society. Historically, global social change is caused by the Industrial Revolution and Ideology and Gender Revolution. The invention of telegraph was the beginning of globalization, identified by the 4T revolution (Telecommunications, Transport, Tourism and Transparency). The revolution in agriculture, mining, manufacturing and industry results changes in lifestyle and exploitation of natural resources that can cause climate change. The second source of social change is the revolution of ideology and gender. When colonialism, slavery and deprivation of human rights occurred, the movement to struggle for human rights as its counterculture appeared, resulting in 1980 the pro-human right movement products. The sexual revolution in the 1960s in the USA demanded for equal rights between men and women. The 1975 UNFPA population convention held in Cairo have made an agreement to restrict population growth using contraception, resulting later-on the concept that sex is no longer for reproductive purpose but for recreation. People’s lifestyle has changed since then.

scholarly journals International problem of climate change in the context of the human right to a favorable environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 549-559
Author(s):  
Marina A. Ermolina ◽  
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Anna V. Kryukova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The subject of this study is the Urgenda Foundation v. The State of the Netherlands case related to climate law. This is the first known example of the use of European Union human rights law in a lawsuit on climate change and the observance of the human right to a healthy environment against the state. Using the comparative legal method, the authors consider similar cases in different countries, which makes it possible to determine the specifics of the relationship between the parties in the Fund’s case.

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