African perspectives on climate change governance

Africa depends on international cooperation and global social responsibility to protect those populations that need it most. Climate change is a “threat multiplier” that has fundamental implications for weather, settlements, infrastructure, food insecurity, livelihoods and development. The complexity of fair climate change governance requires the involvement of a diverse range of institutions.

Professor Oliver C. Ruppel explores climate regimes around the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the role of the

United Nations Security Council, the international human rights regime, international refugee law, the law of the sea regime (UNCLOS) and the world trade order (WTO). It advocates that there is a need for more international cooperation on the rule of law and the duty to cooperate in international climate change governance. Although climate change is becoming an increasingly threatening reality, for Africa it is still one, which is globally often too narrowly perceived, meaning that the severe negative consequences on the people are still largely being neglected in the international negotiations.

Professor Oliver C. Ruppel, the Director of Development and the Rule of Law Programme at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa explores various climate regimes around the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the role of the United Nations Security Council, the international human rights regime, international refugee law, the law of the sea regime (UNCLOS) and the world trade order (WTO).