Amicus Curiae Brief presented by ClientEarth 21 November 2016 c. the parties comply with the transparency framework contained in Article 13, under which all parties will report their emissions consistently and subject their reporting practices to a "technical expert review". 63. The Paris Agreement is also the first climate change agreement to contain a mention of human rights and, therefore, establishes the direct link between international climate change and human rights regimes. The preamble to the Paris Agreement emphasises that “[p]arties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights”.50 The Agreement therefore recalls the positive obligations of the state to promote these human rights through action on climate change. 64. The Paris Agreement represents groundbreaking and game-changing international law and shifts the definition of acceptable and reasonable behaviour by private actors in the context of the global threat posed by climate change. Human rights obligations in the context of climate change should be interpreted in accordance with this new international norm. 5.3 Carbon budgets 65. The implication of the Paris Agreement's temperature goals is that there is a finite quantity of greenhouse gasses that may be emitted into the atmosphere, above which the temperature goal(s) will be exceeded. An article in Nature in June 2016 50 Paris Agreement, recital 12. 34

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