Negotiations for a post-2012 climate change agreement moved an additional step forward in December 2009 at the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (“COP-15”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, but failed to achieve a final agreement.  The purpose of the ongoing climate change negotiations is to craft an agreement that meets the objective of the UNFCCC, namely, to stabilize GHG concentrations while promoting sustainable economic development.  What the climate change negotiations are not doing, however, is incorporating a human rights perspective or a labor rights perspective in a meaningful manner.  This Note argues that the addition of a labor rights perspective to climate change negotiations would strengthen the outcome as a consequence of the dual nature of labor rights—they further human rights while serving as an economic development tool.  A climate change framework informed by the lens of labor rights could include both the moral elements of the individual rights of the laborer and the economic focus of traditional climate change agreements, creating a comprehensive document broad enough in scope to confront foreseeable effects of climate change.  The author also discusses the limitations of international labor rights, including the lack of enforcement power at the global scale, and concludes with suggested roles the International Labor Organization can play in implementing a climate change approach that incorporates a labor rights perspective.