Human Rights and Climate Change

Consultation on the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on Children’s Rights and Climate Change (2022, Sabin Center): 

The Sabin Center was invited to co-host the consultation on the right of the children and climate change to inform the General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change (General Comment No. 26), along with Terre des Hommes and Child Rights Connect. The consultation was held on February 28, 2022. The Sabin Center prepared an annotated bibliography and an accompanying list of youth-based climate litigation cases to inform the consultation. Maria Antonia coordinated the drafting of these resources and presented some thoughts on the significance of youth-based climate litigation during the consultation. A blog post with further detail is forthcoming. 

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (Verfassungsbooks, 2024) (Maria Antonia Tigre, Maxim Bönnemann & Antoine De Spiegeler eds.)

Lea Main-Klingst, Hermann E. Ott and Maria Antonia Tigre, Beyond Protest: How Legal Actions Drive Climate Justice, Routledge Handbook on Global Climate Activism (S. von Mering, T. Bell, A. da Silva Faustino, W. Steele, A. Ward and M. Arjona Soberón, eds., Routledge, 2024)

Maria Antonia Tigre, The Right to a Healthy Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Compliance through the Inter-American System and the Escazú Agreement, International Courts versus Non-compliance Mechanism (C. Voigt and C. Foster, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Erin Daly, Maria Antonia Tigre, and Natalia Urzola, Common but differentiated constitutionalisms: Does ‘environmental constitutionalism’ offer realistic policy options for improving UN environmental law and governance? US and Latin American perspectives, 172 Constitutionalism, Transnational Governance Failures And Policy Responses (E.-Ulrich Petersmann and A. Steinbach, ed., Brill/Nijhoff, 2024

Maria Antonia Tigre and Joana Setzer, Human Rights and Climate Change for Climate Litigation in Brazil and Beyond: An Analysis of the Climate Fund Decision, 54(4) Georgetown Journal of International Law 593 (2023)

Maria Antonia Tigre, International Recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment: What is the Added Value for Latin America and the Caribbean?, Am. J. of Int’l L. Unbound (2023)

Maria Antonia Tigre and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Beyond the North-South divide: Litigation’s role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims, 32(3) Rev. of Eur., Comp. and Int’l Env’t L. 439-452 (Special Issue: Emerging Issues in Loss and Damage for Vulnerable States) (2023)

Melanie Murcott, Maria Antonia Tigre and Nessa Zimmerman, Transnational Insights for Climate Litigation at the European Court of Human Rights: A South-North Perspective in Pursuit of Climate Justice, 56 VRÜ | WCL 299 (2023)

Maria Antonia Tigre, Climate Change and Indigenous Groups: The Rise of Indigenous Voices in Climate Litigation, 9(3) E-Publica 214 (2022)

Maria Antonia Tigre, Exploring the Bedrock of Earth Jurisprudence, 22 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 223-313 (2022)

Maria Antonia Tigre, Natalia Urzola and Victoria Lichet, Reframing Global Biodiversity Protection after COVID-19: Is International Environmental Law up to the task?, 23 Vermont Envt. L. J. 123 (2022)

Maria Antonia Tigre, International Environmental Law in National/Regional Courts (South America, Chapter 67), Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (L. Rajamani and J. Peel, eds., Oxford University Press) (2021)

Maria Antonia Tigre et al., Environmental Protection and Human Rights in the Pandemic, 1(1-2-3) Legal Policy & Pandemics: the Journal of the Global Pandemic Network 317 (2021)

Maria Antonia Tigre, COVID-19 and Amazonia: Right-based approaches for the pandemic response, 30(2) Rev. of Eur., Comp. and Int’l Env’t L. 162 (2021)

Maria Antonia Tigre and Natalia Urzola, The 2017 Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion: changing the paradigm for international environmental law in the Anthropocene, 12(1) J. Hum. Rts. & Envt. 24 (2021)

Maria Antonia Tigre and Sarah C. Slinger, A Voice in the Development of Amazonia: The Constitutional Rights to Participation of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics: Contentious Issues (I.B. de Lima et al., eds., Springer, 2020)

Maria Antonia Tigre, Gaps in International Environmental Law: Toward a Global Pact for the Environment (ELI Press, 2020)

Maria Antonia Tigre and Victoria Lichet, Update on Negotiation of a New International Environmental Agreement, 50(10) Envtl. L. Rep. 10818 (2020)

Maria Antonia Tigre, Implementing Constitutional Environmental Rights in the Amazon Rainforest, Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges (E. Daly and J. May, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Human Rights and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: Ensuring Adequate Protection of Human Rights in the SDM and ITMO Frameworks, Romany Webb and Jessica Wentz (May 2018)

Maria Antonia Tigre, Regional Cooperation in Amazonia: A Comparative Environmental Law Analysis (Brill½Nijhoff, 2017)

Sadly, The Paris Agreement Isn’t Nearly Enough, Michael Gerrard (September 2016)

Climate Change and Human Trafficking After the Paris Climate Agreement, Michael Gerrard (June 2016)

This is a transcript of a presentation delivered at the Judges’ Summit on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. It discusses how climate change will affect displacement and human trafficking and the extent to which the Paris Agreement will address these key problems.

Climate Change and Human Rights, Michael Burger and Jessica Wentz (UNEP, December 2015)

Designing a Climate Change Displacement Coordination Facility: Key Issues for COP 21, Jessica Wentz and Michael Burger (September 2015)

In the lead up to COP 21, there were several proposals to include provisions for the creation of a “climate change displacement coordination facility” in the Paris Agreement. This briefing note highlights some of the functions that the displacement coordination facility could fulfill, as well as some key questions for negotiators in the lead-up to COP 21 and subsequent talks. The note is not intended to be a proposal for how the facility should operate, nor do the functions highlighted below necessarily reflect what is politically or economically feasible. Rather, the note is intended to outline a broad array of considerations for decision-makers as they contemplate whether and how to proceed with the displacement coordination facility.