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  • Environmental Science
  • Human Rights Law
  • International Law

Background:

  • Existential threats pose a significant risk to humanity's future.
  • Current legal frameworks inadequately address protection from these global-scale dangers.
  • There is a gap in recognizing existential threat protection as a human right.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To differentiate human rights from legal rights in the context of existential threats.
  • To explore potential legal strategies for rights-based protection against environmental existential threats.
  • To propose recommendations for implementing and advocating for these protections.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of human rights and legal rights.
  • Review of domestic and international legal mechanisms.
  • Policy analysis and recommendation development.

Main Results:

  • Human rights and legal rights serve distinct but complementary roles.
  • Existing legal systems offer pathways for incorporating rights-based existential threat protection.
  • Specific policy recommendations can foster the adoption of these rights.

Conclusions:

  • Establishing rights-based protections against existential threats is feasible and necessary.
  • Legal and policy innovation is required to safeguard humanity's future.
  • Advocacy for recognizing these protections as human rights is essential.