Climate justice while highlighting the disproportionate impacts of climate change, brings to the fore oftentimes contesting perceptions on structures of responsibility, growing insecurity and the cost of equitable allocation of resources. A normative structuring of the concept builds towards a more ethical consideration, tying together principles of human rights and the moral obligation of certain actors when addressing the impact of the evolving crisis on vulnerable people and communities. This issue brief while acknowledging the rationale behind such arguments factors in the complex space of global interest navigation, political posturing and the varying threat perceptions when ascertaining the broader implications of the subject. Describing the intersections between human rights, insecurity and climate, the paper notes the necessity of adopting a more comprehensive outlook on the topic, especially when regarding trends surrounding non-traditional security challenges and other pertinent issues like that of climate finance.