Abstract

The environment we inhabit constitutes an important determinant of public health. One of the most pressing contemporary issues of international relations is climate change, whose effects extend towards the full enjoyment of the right to health. Over the past three decades, the international climate change regime has made several attempts to frame state’s legal obligations concerning climate-related risks. Normative discourses have long conflated human rights, the environment, and public health, however, legal practice has only recently started pondering about climate-sensitive risks to global health. In this sense, the InterAmerican System of Human Rights has become an interesting forum to inquire the legal duties states have on public health due to the negative impacts of climate change, specifically with regards to the Advisory Opinion 23/17 and Resolution 3/2021 dictated within the Inter-American System of Human Rights.