consumption and also to lend political support to the national and international reforms that are urgently needed to curb excess greenhouse gas emission. Such reforms must ensure, in particular, that climate-relevant decisions by corporations and individuals are guided by prices that take full account of the true present and future costs of greenhouse gas emissions. The manual you are holding is responsive to the profound and wide-ranging threats posed by climate change and to the various policies and institutional reforms these threats require. Aimed at policy-makers, negotiators, scholars, and stakeholders working on climate change issues around the world, the manual seeks to provide a resource on international legal commitments and best practices for respecting, protecting, and fulfilling economic, social, and cultural human rights in a changing climate. More specifically, it contains information, relating to these rights, on principles, obligations, and standards that are relevant to the design and implementation of climate policies around the world, with a special focus on areas where the effects of rapid climate change are likely to be most severe. Our hope is that this manual will inspire, support, and guide global efforts aimed at mitigating climate change and adapting to its manifold consequences. We also intend this manual to initiate an international dialogue among scholars, practitioners, policy-makers, and stakeholders on the concrete measures that can be taken to ensure that policies aimed at addressing climate change enhance, rather than undermine, internationally protected rights to life, work, family, health, food, water, shelter, education and culture. On behalf of ASAP and its two partners – Yale’s Governance, Environment & Markets Initiative and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law in Montréal – I encourage you to join this conversation and to contribute to the next iteration of this manual which is conceived as a living document that will evolve in line with developing standards of international law, the identification of best practices and the exchange of academic and traditional knowledge within relevant networks and communities of practice. Prof. Thomas Pogge Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University and President of Academics Stand against Poverty 2