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Climate Change and Human Rights: Agenda-Setting Against the Odds

30 January 2017

This Working Paper reflects on how small countries and non-state actors have succeeded in shaping the climate change and human rights agenda despite resistance.

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By Matthias Mueller (MSc Global Governance and Ethics)

Human rights were absent from climate negotiations until recently. This GGI Working Paper uses Multi Streams Analysis (MSA) to consider how small countries and NGOs succeeded in shaping this agenda against the odds, ultimately securing a reference to human rights in the Paris Agreement.

To access the full paper: Climate Change and Human Rights: Agenda-Setting Against the Odds (PDF)

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