The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance [Hardcover]

Outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance, a framework for mainstreaming human rights into carbon project implementation.Damilola S. Olawuyi provides stakeholders in carbon, energy and environmental investments with a functional framework for integrating human rights into general risk management processes, specifically in the design, approval and implementation of carbon projects.Damilola S. Olawuyi provides stakeholders in carbon, energy and environmental investments with a functional framework for integrating human rights into general risk management processes, specifically in the design, approval and implementation of carbon projects.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 l6