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ARTICLE · 23 APRIL 2015

Oslo Principles On Climate Change: Governments Are Breaching Legal Duties

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A group of preeminent international jurists have put together a series of legal principles, called the Oslo Principles on Global Obligations to Reduce Climate Change.

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A  group of preeminent international jurists have put together a series of legal principles, called the Oslo Principles on Global Obligations to Reduce Climate Change. These principles demonstrate that the governments of the world are breaching their legal duties to their citizens, by doing so little about climate change.

The purpose in drafting the Principles was to generate momentum for the next U.N. Climate Summit (to be held in Paris in December) to forge an agreement with real teeth in an effort to keep the earth's global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, which is projected to be the point of no return for catastrophic climate change.

The group, called The Expert Group on Global Climate Obligations, surveyed various principles of international human rights law, environmental law, and tort law to articulate specific obligations facing each of the world's nations, including those considered to be lesser developed. The over-arching

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