Climate Policy and International Law

Abstract

The climate change has reached crucial dimensions that affect life deeply. Some regions are more affected by this, and it has become a threat to future generations. In the last decades, this issue has been brought to the agenda many times, but the necessary measures have not been taken yet. The increase in world temperature and the rapid melting of glaciers will drive sea waters to rise and some regions to be underwater, and droughts due to increased heat will expand. This situation will lead to food and water problems very soon, and it may endanger human life. Climate change has economic, political, and legal dimensions. Human rights violations will occur in many issues regarding the right to life, health, food security and access to clean water, and the migrations that will arise due to these reasons. These are not the problems of a single state, but the entire world population. So, international measures have been brought to the agenda of international organizations and examined within the framework of international law. It is necessary to re-evaluate its economic and legal dimensions by re-discussing agricultural policies, water and energy economies. Every natural disaster we experience is related change. This study consists of three parts, first of all, climate change and its consequences will be explained, then the studies on this subject in international law will be explained, and in the last part, how to find solutions to possible problems that may arise in the future will be discussed.