Poverty represents a failure to fulfil a range of humanrights including the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, housing and the right to earn a decent living.
Climate change has been called the defining challenge for development of the 21st century and there is a widespread call for a humanrights based approach to combatting its effects. A humanrights approach to climate justice recognises and makes explicit the human face of climate change – in many cases, the human cost. As important and profound as the impact on the natural world may be – loss of species, loss of habitats, bleached coral reefs, shrinking polar ice and more – there are also
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