The evolution of human rights norms in light of climate change

Abstract

This study presents climate change, which imposed itself as a fundamental issue that carries with it major problems that made humanity face serious risks, especially to humans as an element of the environment, especially after the Stockholm Conference 05 to 16 June 1972 in Sweden, and accordingly, the international community appeared that the close link between climate change and human rights, as its rules have been greatly affected since the issuance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, as efforts continue until the twenty-first Conference of the Parties COP21 in Paris in 2015 to reach an agreement aimed at curbing climate change, embodying the legal impact of the relationship between climate change and human rights at the international level.

This paper discusses the most important problems facing the application of international legal instruments related to climate change, especially when it comes to the issue of human rights, and refers to the proposal of some solutions that came up with them to prevent or slow climate change from progressing.