BOOK On The Human Rights Based Approach To Carbon Finance — Order Your Copy!!!

The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon
Finance

Professor Damilola S. Olawuyi, LL.B
(1^st Class), BL
(1^st Class), LL.M (Calgary), LL.M
(Harvard), DPhil (Oxford)

Professor of Law and Director, OGEES Institute, Afe Babalola
University, Ado Ekiti.

The Human Rights Based Approach
to Carbon Finance 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.

• Examines the indirect impact of climate change on human rights,
  an area which has hitherto not been subject to exhaustive and
  rigorous exposition and analysis
• Proposes a legal and institutional framework through which
  countries can respect and protect human rights and adhere to recent
  UN treaties, resolutions and declarations
• Provides practical information on how companies can incorporate
  human rights due diligence into general corporate risk management
  processes

Reviews & endorsements

‘Damilola S. Olawuyi has tackled the intersection of three
issues of great complexity and even greater importance: the design
of projects that are needed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,
and thus avoid the worst effects of climate change; the methods
being used to pay for these projects; and the effect that the
projects will have on the communities (often indigenous
populations) that live in or near the places where these projects
are carried out. This book displays a mastery of the actual
problems these projects face in the real world … It also presents
concrete proposals for reconciling at least some of the conflicts.
Human rights and climate finance have too often been very separate
spheres of study; Olawuyi has now brought them together in a way
that performs a great service in helping us understand and
constructively deal with the tensions between them.’ Michael B.
Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, and
Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law
School

‘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

Information

For more information or to order your copies, please contact Mr.
Keji Kolawole: [email protected]^[1] , Tel:
+234 81 40000 988

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/environmental-law/human-rights-based-approach-carbon-finance?format=PB^[2]

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