ABSTRACT
As a matter of global environmental governance, climate change may be viewed as the quintessential public law problem. It is an ecospheric threat involving every nation in the world and requiring political cooperation at the highest level to achieve a viable and just solution. 1 Yet climate change also engages interests that have historically been viewed as matters of private law: the loss of private property, harm to individual economic interests and personal injury. Like private law, international human rights law also focuses on the protection of individual rights and interests. It makes some sense, then, that a volume on human rights approaches to climate change would include a chapter on private law remedies.
