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Ethical reflections should be closely connected to social practices, so that moral principles are related to social reality. In this respect human rights can provide a coherent and globally acceptable basis for the ethics of climate change. Human rights can be seen as a threshold to provide all people with minimum opportunity to live a decent life. Freedom, equality, solidarity and participation are the main normative dimensions of human rights from which a convincing climate policy could be derived.
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Reder, M. (2012). Climate Change and Human Rights. In: Edenhofer, O., Wallacher, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Reder, M., Knopf, B., Müller, J. (eds) Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4540-7_6
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