NARRATIVE REPORT 2009 - The ICHRP

International Council on Human Rights Policy - Narrative Report 2009
D. External publications
Human Rights and Climate Change (302)
Published by Cambridge University Press, December 2009
This is the third publication on climate change and human rights for which the Council has taken
responsibility. (See project 136 in section A; and project 138 in section C.)
Human Rights and Climate Change was published by Cambridge University Press in association with
ICHRP in December 2009, shortly before the Copenhagen Summit. It is based on papers that were
originally prepared for the Council’s report Climate Change and Human Rights – A Rough Guide. The
authors are:
Sam Adelman
Kye Mesa Barnard
Jon Barnett
Simon Caney
Philippe Cullet
Stephen Humphreys
Paul Hunt
Rajat Khosla
James Martin
John Mutter
Peter Newell
Frances Seymour
Dinah Shelton
Professor, legal theory & comparative human rights, Warwick School of Law;
Ph.d Student, Columbia University;
Research Council Fellow, School of Social and Environmental Enquiry,
University of Melbourne;
Professor in Political Theory, Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in
Politics, Magdalen College;
Reader in Law, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London,
Director of the International Environmental Law Research Centre, Geneva,
Editor of the Journal of Law, Environment and Development;
Research Director at the International Council on Human Rights Policy, now
lecturer at the London School of Economics;
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Highest Attainable Standard of Health,
Professor, University of Essex and University of Waikato;
Senior Research Officer in the Right to Health Unit at the Human Rights
Centre, University of Essex;
Fellow, Oxford University Centre for the Environment;
Professor at Columbia University, Departments of Earth and Environmental
Sciences and of International and Public Affairs;
Professor of Development Studies, University of East Anglia;
Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR),
Bogor, Indonesia;
Manatt/Ahn Professor in International Law, George Washington University
Law School.
The book was edited by Stephen Humphreys who also wrote the introduction and conclusion. Mary
Robinson contributed a foreword.
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