ENV118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Whanganui River, Intergenerational Equity, Human Migration
27 Nov 2018
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Paris agreement: human rights is in the preamble but not in the previsions. It was a big issue in the drafts but got traded out due to the potential financial implications. Stems back to the holy scriptures with the heed to look after future generations: as the guardians of the planet we need to leave the planet in the same or a better state that we found it. Close corresponding links between climate injustice, socio-economic, racial, and gender injustice. New ipcc report says it is the final call in. By 2040, 600 million children will live with terms of responding to climate change. Many of the impacts that climatologists have been talking about for 20 years have confirmed the climate is changing. Push to realise potential cost of human life and material damage. All of these issues are unprecedented in the leap of law. To be able to quantify the implications of climate change is extremely difficult.
