A Research Agenda for Human Rights and the Environment

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Notes

1 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC WGII (Sixth Assessment Report, 28 February 2022) Ch 11: Australia, 69–72.

2 Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia's Protected Areas, <www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/about-nrs/australias-protected-areas> accessed on 5 March 2024.

3 Lee Godden and Stuart Cowel, ‘Conservation Planning and Indigenous Governance in Australia's Indigenous Protected Areas’ (2016) 24(5) Restoration Ecology 692, 693.

4 Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Indigenous Protected Areas, <www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/indigenous-protected-areas> accessed on 5 March 2024.

5 Godden and Cowel (n 3) 694.

6 Terri Janke and others, ‘Indigenous Chapter’, State of the Environment Report (2021) <https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/indigenous/introduction> accessed on 5 March 2024.

7 Interview with Rikki Dank, Traditional Owner (online via Microsoft Teams, 8 February 2024).

8 Ibid.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

11 Australian National University, Remote Australians Lack Access to Quality Drinking Water (21 July 2022) <www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/remote-australians-lack-access-to-quality-drinking-water> accessed on 5 March 2024.

12 Pepperill and Anor v CEO Housing [2023] NTSC 90.

13 Cullen and Brassart describe ‘overseas colonized territories’ as a ‘territory that is not a state under international law, is geographically separate from the ruling colonial power, and possesses a majority population who identify as a culturally, linguistically and ethnically distinct from their mainland counterparts’ (144).

14 Human Rights Committee, Views adopted by the Committee under article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol, concerning communication No 3624/2019, UN Doc CCPR/C/135/D/3624/2019 (22 September 2022) (‘Daniel Billy & Ors v Australia’).

15 Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law, Daniel Billy and others v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition) <https://climatecasechart.com/non-us-case/petition-of-torres-strait-islanders-to-the-united-nations-human-rights-committee-alleging-violations-stemming-from-australias-inaction-on-climate-change/> accessed on 5 March 2024.

16 ClientEarth, Torres Strait Climate Claimants Win Their Historic Human Rights Fight Against the Australian Government (23 September 2022) <www.clientearth.org/latest/news/torres-strait-islanders-fight-to-hold-australia-accountable-for-climate-change/> accessed on 5 March 2024.

17 Refaela Sena, ‘The Intersection of Human Rights and Climate Change in the Inter-American Rights System’ (2021) 38(2) Wisconsin International Law Journal 331. See also Maria Antonia Tigre, ‘Climate Change and Indigenous Groups: The Rise of Indigenous Voices in Climate Litigation’ (2022) 9(3) Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law e-Publica 214.

18 Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking Relief from Violations Resulting from Global Warming Caused by Acts and Omissions of the United States, Petition No. P-1413-05 (7 December 2005) (‘Inuit Petition’).

19 Sena (n 17) 351–353.

20 Waratah Coal Pty Ltd v Youth Verdict Ltd & Ors (No 6) [2022] QLC 21.

21 Inter-American Court of Human Rights, The Environment and Human Rights (State Obligations in Relation to the Environment in the Context of the Protection and Guarantee of the Rights to Life and to Personal Integrity—Interpretation of and Scope of Articles 4(1) and 5(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights), Advisory Opinion OC-23/17 (15 November 2017).

22 Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Indigenous Communities Members of the Lhaka Honhat Association v Argentina (6 February 2020).

23 Inter-American Court of Human Rights (n 21) [62] and Lhaka Honhat Association v Argentina (n 22) [203].

24 Maria Antonia Tigre and Natalia Urzola, ‘The 2017 Inter-American Court's Advisory Opinion: Changing the Paradigm for International Environmental Law in the Anthropocene’ (2021) 12(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 24, 45–49.

25 Sena (n 17) 349.