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33 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2015-2016)

handle is hein.journals/penv33 and id is 1 raw text is: ESSAY Climate Change Effects on Snow Conditions and the Human Rights of Reindeer Herders STEFAN KIRCHNER* I. INTRODUCTION In November 2014, the latest report by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1 showed that anthropogenic climate change is not only already happening,2 and is bound to continue for some time beyond the year 2100,3 but also that there is still a window of opportunity for limiting the effects of climate change.4 One way to do so is to limit emissions, and the forthcoming meeting of the states which have ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change * Associate Professor for Fundamental and Human Rights, with a special focus on Indigenous Rights, University of Lapland, Faculty of Law, Rovaniemi, Finland. Email: stefan.kirchner@ulapland.fi. Rechtsanwalt (admitted to the bar in Germany), marine-consulting.eu, Antrifttal, Germany. The author thanks Vanessa M Frese for her valuable research assistance and Sfmi friends and colleagues from different parts of Sfpmi as well as participants at a workshop on climate change funded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and hosted by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland for their willingness to share information about reindeer herding in their respective home areas. All errors and opinions expressed in this article, though, are only attributable to the author. 1. INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE 2014 SYNTHESIS REPORT (Core Writing Team et al. eds., 2015), http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR AR5 FINAL full.pdf [http: //perma.cc/ GPZ6-FJLM]. 2. Id. at 3. 3. Id. at 11. 4. Id. at 13.

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