Climate Financing and Human Rights: Submission to the OHCHR
Submitted on 16 January 2026
Submission the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Call for Inputs: Climate Financing and Human Rights
About the Submission:
This is a contribution by the researchers on the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT) project to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) OHCHR: Call for Inputs: Climate Financing and Human Rights.
Our submission is informed by our previous research and policy publications on the legal and policy architecture of sustainable development and climate finance in the context of greater engagement with private sector investment and finance in development. The contribution addresses key questions 2, 4, and 6 of the Questionnaire.
Question 2. Relationship between climate finance and human rights
Question 4. Challenges and barriers that limit mobilization of, access to, or effectiveness of climate financing for advancing human rights-based climate action.
Question 6. Specific recommendations for mobilizing climate financing.
This contribution was submitted by:
- Dr Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Associate Research Professor in Public International Law, Human Rights and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School. University of Essex, UK
- Professor Celine Tan, Professor of International Economic Law, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, UK
Author
Professor of International Economic Law, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, UK
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School. University of Essex, UK
Assistant Research Professor in Public International Law, Human Rights and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium