Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making

Since the mid-2000s, a growing number of governments, international bodies and experts, courts have increasingly recognized importance rights-based approach to climate decision-making. By focusing on impacts change rights individuals, communities, peoples, human lens emphasizes dimensions change, recognizes how forms systemic discrimination engender exacerbate vulnerability, focuses attention implications social environmental justice for governance. Moreover, states private actors’ obligations responsibilities specific in relation change. State non-state actors are not only obliged take effective mitigation adaptation measures that respect, protect, fulfil rights, but they must also ensure these do themselves infringe rights. Finally, approaches emphasize public participation, access information, development, implementation, review decisions. Despite its promise, transformative potential addressing delivering remains unrealized.