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Climate change and human rights
Sachs, Wolfgang,contributor.ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Sachs, Wolfgang,contributor.ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
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"Tulun and Takuu, two tiny islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are close to being swallowed up by the Pacific Ocean – victims of global climate change. The government has sent emergency food supplies to the islands, as the inhabitants have had to live on fish and coconut since salt water flooded their fields. Many fear that a distinctive culture will vanish if the people of Tulun and Takuu are forced to give up their native land. Who are the winners and who the losers in climate change? Burning fossil fuels (as well as forests) has both huge benefi ts and huge costs. As to the first, access to fuel provides economic power. Thus, we see in the negotiations for a post-Kyoto agreement nations scrambling for allowances to use the atmosphere as a dumping-ground for greenhouse gases. Climate equity in this context is about equality among nations. As to the second, however, causing the dumping ground to overflow gives rise to numerous climate threats, possibly to such a degree that fundamental rights might be violated. Climate equity in this context is about human rights.[...]", p. 85
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2009-10
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