Climate change and human rights: this volume systemically sheds light on an increasingly vital subject, tackling critical issues, such as the centrality of the basic claim to (a sustainable) environment for resolving problems of causation and imputation. Whereas these questions have been mostly approached politically, the book interestingly discloses above all both a theoretical and practical legal per - spective. The contributors thus comprehensively explore the reciprocal regulatory implications of human rights and global warming, whose scope and consequences have so far been largely underestimated. From a realistic and cosmopolitan standpoint, actual damages and future threats posed by climate change to fundamental rights bolster the idea of ‘risk society’, first posited by Ulrich Beck.1 Global warming has a universal impact, so much so that it affects Australia and Goudier Island, Alaska, Paris, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro or New Delhi alike: its effects concern human beings as such, not as nationals of different countries. Everyone is concerned: together with the right to environment, which is progressively developing in domestic and supranational case law and regulation, the claim of humanity to survival is eventually at stake. Individual and collective perspectives therefore merge with one another: threatened by climate change, intertwined particular and collective rights may allow overcoming national and cultural barriers. Along these lines, as postulated by Jürgen Habermas,2 globalised human relationships at best facilitate the conception of a universal community and ‘global citizenship’.3 Based on the Kantian idea of a cosmopolitan society centred on individuals and peoples,4 international and domestic law, or even ‘global’ law, can thus play a key role in shaping the relationship between climate change and human rights. Within this context, the book develops a robust practical analysis of current and prospective positive regulation, outlining its potential, loopholes and limits, against a consistent theoretical background, sharply inspired by tripartite fundamental obligations.