CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Acknowledgements
This publication was developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with
the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University in the City of New York. The report was
drafted by Michael Burger, Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and Jessica Wentz,
Associate Director and Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center, with contributions from John Knox, the United
Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment. The final critical review
and consolidation of the draft was undertaken and overseen by Arnold Kreilhuber, Head of the International
Environmental Law Unit, Lara Ognibene, Legal Officer, and Katy Ayres, Legal Consultant, with the Division of
Environmental Law and Conventions, UNEP.
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