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Shawkat Alam, Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Jona Razzaque, International Environmental Law and the Global South, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2015, 623 pp, ISBN: 978-1107055698 (hb), $155.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2016

Damilola S. Olawuyi
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 611 - 616
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1 United Nations Human Rights Council, Human rights and the environment, UN Doc. A/HRC/RES/16/11, 12 April 2011, preamble. See also the Report of the Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, United Nations, Human rights and extreme poverty A/65/259 (para. 37), ‘Environmental degradation disproportionately affects those living in extreme poverty’.

2 See, for example, International Bar Association, Climate Change Justice and Human Rights Task Force Report, Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption (International Bar Association 2014) 147, arguing that an additional way of enhancing climate change justice would be the creation of an International Court for the Environment.