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IPCC Makes Climate A Human Rights Issue
New Matilda (2014)
  • Alexandra Phelan, Georgetown University
  • Matthew Rimmer, Australian National University College of Law
Abstract
Climate change is an issue for public health, law, poverty and even human survival, according to the latest IPCC report, released yesterday, write Matthew Rimmer and Alexandra Phelan
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published its latest report upon the impacts of global warming, highlighting the pernicious impact of climate change upon public health, well-being, and even the survival of the human race.
Three Australian contributors to the IPCC report chapter — Anthony McMichael, Colin Butler, and Helen Louise Berry — emphasised that the public debate needed to focus upon the relationship between public health, the environment, and climate change:
"Human-driven climate change poses a great threat, unprecedented in type and scale, to well-being, health and perhaps even to human survival." The report also featured a number of basic pathways by which climate change affects health, and Australia features prominently as an example.
Keywords
  • IPCC,
  • Climate Change,
  • Public Health,
  • Divestment,
  • Human Rights,
  • Climate Justice
Publication Date
April 1, 2014
Citation Information
Alexandra Phelan and Matthew Rimmer. "IPCC Makes Climate A Human Rights Issue" New Matilda (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/180/