Climate Change and Human Rights

Sinden Amy , ‘Climate Change and Human Rights’ (2007) 27(2) Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law 255–271, 255.

The federal government's Climate Commission's report released on 30 November 2011 stated while linking an individual extreme weather event with climate change was difficult, recent research suggested in some regions it was possible to identify the likelihood it had played a role. Morton Adam , ‘Health risks rise with changing climate’, The Age (Melbourne), 30 November 2011.

‘Banana prices tipped to drop after reaching post-Cyclone Yasi high’, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane), August 6, 2011. http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/banana-prices-tipped-to-drop-after-reaching-post-cyclone-yasi-high/story-e6freqmx-1226109385180.

Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Background Paper: Human Rights and Climate Change (2008), 4.

UNDP, Human Development Report 2007/2008 – Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world (2007), 185–186, <http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf>.

Dupont Alan and Pearman Graeme , Heating up the Planet: Climate change and security (Lowy Institute, 2006) 30–31. <http://www.lowyinstitute.com/publications/heating-planet-climate-change-and-security>.

Hennessy , ‘Australia and New Zealand’, in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (CUP, 2007), 515, http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-chapter11.pdf.

‘UN expert welcomes declaration that clean water and sanitation is a human right’, UN News Centre, 30 July 2010, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35487&Cr=sanitation&Cr1=#.UJx0h-QzrgU.

The HREOC Background Paper, above n 4, 5.

Sachs Wolfgang , ‘Climate Change and Human Rights’ (2008) 51 Development 332, 333.

Dupont and Pearman , above n 6, 35.

‘Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the relationship between climate change and human rights’, A/HRC/10/61, 15 January 2009 (‘OHCHR report’), 11.

Confalonieri , ‘Human Health’, in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (CUP, 2007), http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch8.html.

Bhattacharja Shaoni ‘Global warming kills 160,000 a year’, New Scientist, 1 October 2003.

Working Group on Climate Change and Development, Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific (November 2007), 6, http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/10020IIED.pdf. See also Sachs , above n 10, 334.

Sullivan Rory , Australia Country Study (UNDP Human Development Report 2007/08, 2007/61) 1, http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2007-2008/papers/sullivan_rory_australia.pdf.

OHCHR report, above n 12, 13.

Australian Network of Environment Defenders Offices (‘ANEDO’), Submission to the National Human Rights Consultation, ‘Climate Change and Human Rights’, 15 June 2009, 32–34.

Ibid 33–34.

OHCHR report, above n 12, 9.

UNDP, above n 5, 8, 30, 75, http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf.

Aminzadeh Sara C , ‘A Moral Imperative: The Human Rights Implications of Climate Change’ (2006–2007) 30 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L Rev. 231, 251.

Friends of the Earth International, Climate Change: Voices from communities affected by climate change (November 2007), 4–7, http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/climate-testimonies.

OHCHR report, above n 12, 17.

von Doussa John , ‘Climate Change and Human Rights’ (CPD, 2008) http://cpd.org.au/2008/06/climate-change-and-human-rights/.