Abstract
Vulnerable poor people are commonly marginalized or even ignored in climate change analyses, in various ways. The paper notes seven of these ways, which overlap but deserve separate attention. It notes in particular the perverse, inverted application of the precautionary principle: in the absence of near-certainty, more evidence is demanded to avoid the ‘risk’ that emissions might be unnecessarily reduced, while the risks of major damage to the lives of vulnerable people who are remote in space, time and political centrality, are tolerated.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Climate Change and Human Rights: The 2015 Paris Conference and the Task of Protecting People on a Warming Planet |
| Editors | D. Kamal, M. Di Paola |
| Place of Publication | Sussex |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Bibliographical note
'Global Policy' is a Wiley-Blackwell journal edited from the University of Durham, LSE and Hertie School of GovernanceThis column by Des Gasper is part of Global Policy’s e-book, ‘Climate Change and Human Rights: The 2015 Paris Conference and the Task of Protecting People on a Warming Planet’, edited by Marcello Di Paola and Daanika Kamal. Contributions from academics and practitioners will be serialised on Global Policy until the e-book’s release in November 2015.
Research programs
- EUR-ISS-GGSJ
