6. Recommended Further Reading

Books, Articles and Chapters

Clark, Cristy and Beth Goldblatt, ‘The Right to a Healthy Environment and Social and Economic Rights — Responding to Climate Change in Australia’ (2023) 29(1) Australian Journal of Human Rights 65–83

Davies, Kirsten, Sam Adelman, Anna Grear, Catherine Iorns Magallanes, Tom Kerns and S Ravi Rajan, ‘The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change: A New Legal Tool for Global Policy Change’ (2017) 8(2) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 217–53

Dehm, Julia, ‘Coal Mines, Carbon Budgets and Human Rights in Australian Climate Litigation: Reflections on Gloucester Resources Limited v Minister for Planning and Environment’ (2021) 26(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 244–73

Goldblatt, Beth, ‘Climate Change, Inequality and Discrimination Law: The Example of Swimming Pool Access in Moree’ (2023) 41(6) UNSW Law Journal 56 <https://doi.org/10.53637/HEYP3471>

Humphrys, Stephen (ed), Human Rights and Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Knox, John, ‘Human Rights Principles and Climate Change’ in Cinnamon Carlarne, Kevin R Gray and Richard Tarasofsky (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Lewis, Bridget, ‘The Potential of International Rights-based Climate Litigation to Advance Human Rights Law and Climate Justice’ (2021) 9(1) Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity 1–27

McInerney-Lankford, Siobhán, ‘Climate Change and Social Rights: Perspectives on Legal Obligations’ in Christina Binder, Jane A Hofbauer, Flávia Piovesan and Amaya Úbeda de Torres (eds), Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) 495 <https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972130.00043>

Preston, Brian and Nicola Silbert, ‘Trends in Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation: Pathways for Litigation in Australia’ (2023) 49(1) Monash University Law Review 39

Rodríguez-Garavito, César, ‘Litigating the Climate Emergency: The Global Rise of Human Rights–based Litigation for Climate Action’ in César Rodríguez-Garavito (ed), Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 9–83

Savaresi, Annalisa and Joana Setzer, ‘Rights-based Litigation in the Climate Emergency: Mapping the Landscape and New Knowledge Frontiers’ (2022) 13(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 7–34

Cases, Legislation and UN Documents

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Statement: Climate Change and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Doc E/C.12/2018/1 (31 October 2018)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Joint Statement on Human Rights and Climate Change, UN Doc HRI/2019/1 (14 May 2020)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation No. 37 on Gender-related Dimensions of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Context of Climate Change, UN Doc CEDAW/C/GC/37 (7 February 2018) <https://doi.org/10.1163/22131035-00702006>

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 26 (2023) on Children’s Rights and the Environment, with a Special Focus on Climate Change, CRC/C/GC/26 (22 August 2023)

Human Rights Council, Climate Change and Poverty: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, 41st sess, UN Doc A/HRC/41/39 (17 July 2019)

Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment, UN Doc A/HRC/31/52 (1 February 2016)

Morgera, Elisa, Scene-setting Report: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change, A/HRC/56/46 (21 June 2024)

‘Special Rapporteur on Climate Change’, United Nations (Web Page, 26 March 2025) <https://www.ohchr.org/en/specialprocedures/sr-climate-change>

UN General Assembly, The Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment, GA Res 76/300, UN Doc A/RES/76/300 (28 July 2022)