An issue related to Innocent’s post on environmental rights and Michele’s on “climate refugees” is the question of to what extent does climate change affect human rights in general? This is a question which is undergoing a lot of scrutiny not least since the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was, in 2008, charged with undertaking a study into the relationship between human rights and climate change by the Human Rights Council and since a group of Inuit citizens filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, in 2005, alleging that the United States had violated a series…