"Subnational authorities and climate change."

Today’s world abounds with ‘frontier cities’ seeking to explicitly assert responsibility for international humanrights law, even – and especially – where the state partiesconcerned do not take their international obligations asseriously. They can add to the effectiveness, but also tothe legitimacy and the appropriateness of climate action.International (human rights) law has a key role to play insupporting their efforts. There are, however, risks involved in a focus upon local action.