Product of the great challenges of the last and the present century to preserve the sustainability and with scientific antecedents in progress, it has been demonstrated that the climate change is interfering in the Human Rights for what to face it becomes unpostponable. While this interrelation is evident, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the first time has expressly and systematically addressed the undeniable relationship between the protection ofthe environment and the realization of human rights. This short work will deal with the Advisory Opinion “Environment and Human Rights”, analyzing it around the guidelines for the policies derived from it, in direct orientation with the new Paris Agreement on Climate Change that binds the States of our region that have ratified it to take measures to face this phenomenon.
Keywords:
Climate change, human rights, Advisory Opinion, domestic policies
Author Biographies
Tiare Francisca García Garcés, Universidad Finis Terrae
Tiare García Garcés es egresada de Derecho y asistente de investigación de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile.
Andrea Lucas Garín, Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Andrea Lucas Garín es doctora en Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Master of Laws en Derecho Internacional de la Universidad de Heidelberg y de la Universidad de Chile. Directora del Instituto de Investigación en Derecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Chile.
García Garcés, T. F., & Lucas Garín, A. (2020). Guidelines for the link between Climate Change and Human Rights in the States of the Inter-American System in the light of the Advisory Opinion 23/17. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, 16(2), 161–175. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2020.56875