ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on how human rights standards should be considered in the Paris Agreement’s transparency mechanisms that have been created to assure that governments adopt policies and measures that are sufficiently ambitious and fair to avoid dangerous climate change and thus prevent human rights violations. Although this chapter will focus on national obligations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) to prevent human rights violations, much of what is discussed in this chapter also applies to national obligations to support adaptation, and compensate for losses and damages, associated with climate change impacts, when these are necessary to protect human rights.