Browsing by Author "Lindberg, Sanni"

The relationship between human rights and climate change in international law is not straightforward. Although both regimes have recognised that there is a connection between the two, there are still questions that need answering. These include the scope of states duties under human rights law in the context of climate change as well as the extraterritorial application of human rights to climate change. The question of causal link between not only human actions and climate change but also between climate change and human rights viola-tion needs research. These questions are explored in this research through the lens of Small Islands Developing States. This aspect is taken because these islands are highly affected by climate change but their contribution to it is minimal. This research concludes that firstly, human rights can be violated by climate change; secondly, states do have duties under hu-man rights law in the context of climate change; thirdly, in some cases human rights law can be applied extraterritorially to climate change and fourthly, the causal link between human activities, climate change and human rights can be established.