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The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance

Outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance, a framework for mainstreaming human rights into carbon project implementation.

Damilola S. Olawuyi (Author)

9781107512849, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2018

439 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.62 kg

'This book is about the big issue in the transition to sustainability - the linking of equity with sustainability. No longer is it tolerable to focus only on environmental impact. Development must be approached and financed through the triple lens of environmental, social and economic sustainability … The book discusses what this means in practical terms - an expanded role for bodies presently engaged in screening carbon projects, a requirement for a specific human rights impact assessment, review mechanisms, better governance and compliance and complaints committees. Dr Damilola S. Olawuyi has written a clear, well-informed and documented work, in a field which should and does engage all of us ever more.' The Right Hon. The Lord Jonathan Hugh Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and Chair, International Law Association

This book analyses the topical and contentious issue of the human rights impacts associated with carbon projects, especially in developing countries. It outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance as a functional framework for mainstreaming human rights into the design, approval, finance and implementation of carbon projects. It also describes the nature and scope of carbon projects, the available legal options for their financing and the key human rights issues at stake in their planning and execution. Written in a user-friendly style, the proposal for a rights-based due diligence framework through which human rights issues can be anticipated and addressed makes this book relevant to all stakeholders in carbon, energy, and environmental investments and projects.

Part I. Carbon Projects and Human Rights: Introductory Context and Principles: 1. Introduction
2. Climate change projects and human rights struggles
Part II. Mainstreaming Human Rights Safeguards into the International Legal Regime on Climate Change: 3. The concept of mainstreaming in international law
4. The human rights mainstream paradigm and the question of approach
Part III. The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance: Nature, Elements and Content: 5. Normative contents/elements of the human rights-based approach
6. Legal framework for implementing the human rights-based approach to carbon finance
7. Mobilizing structures: institutional framework for implementing the human rights-based approach to carbon finance
Part IV. From Theory to Practice: Practical Challenges, Paradoxes and Potentials of a Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance: 8. Making mainstreaming work: a three-step approach to implementation
9. Minding the gap: practical paradoxes and barriers to the adoption of a human rights-based approach to carbon finance
10. Implementing a human rights-based approach to carbon finance: summary for policy makers.

Subject Areas: Environment law [LNKJ], International human rights law [LBBR], International environmental law [LBBP], Law [L], Environmental economics [KCN]

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