Are International Human Rights Instruments Effective In Protecting People's Rights from the Global Effects of Climate Change? : Grin Verlag : 9783668608337 : 3668608334 : 17 Jan 2018 : Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: A, Birkbeck, University of London, language: English, abstract: This study seeks to address the issue of climate change through a human rights lens by focusing on the causes of climate change and its impacts on both the environment and human rights. It highlights the close link between capitalist industrialization and environmental degradation and explains how this consequently leads to human rights violations. This research tackles human rights approach to climate change with a special focus on international human rights instruments mainly the two international covenants, the ICCPR and the ICESCR, it seeks to understand whether they impose international obligations on states to protect h