The Janus-Head of Human Rights and Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole W. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Clean Development Mechanism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Absolute Minimum ◽  
Climate Change Responses ◽  
Reduction Of Emissions ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

AbstractThis article examines the role human rights instruments play when states seek to adopt regulatory initiatives in the name of addressing climate change. The article argues that a series of important restrictions exist. Governments responding to climate change need to take into account existing human rights. This observation is particularly relevant for countries implementing Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) projects and for countries taking part in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects under the Kyoto Protocol. The article likewise argues that special human rights obligations arise in relation to the risks associated with climate change. These place on states a responsibility to secure risk assessment and risk communication while taking steps to mitigate climate change-associated risks. While the article considers these requirements to constitute an absolute minimum, it is argued that they can offer a way of securing that national governments are accountable when it comes to climate change responses. On the other hand, it will be shown that these human rights restrictions will sometimes have the potential to run counter to the adoption of effective climate change responses.

scholarly journals Machine Learning Speeding Up the Development of Portfolio of New Crop Varieties to Adapt to and Mitigate Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdallah Bari ◽  
Hassan Ouabbou ◽  
abderrazek Jilal ◽  
Hamid Khazaei ◽  
Fred Stoddard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Crop Varieties ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
High Yielding Varieties ◽  
New Crop ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Climate change poses serious challenges to achieving food security in a time of a need to produce more food to keep up with the worlds increasing demand for food. There is an urgent need to speed up the development of new high yielding varieties with traits of adaptation and mitigation to climate change. Mathematical approaches, including ML approaches, have been used to search for such traits, leading to unprecedented results as some of the traits, including heat traits that have been long sought-for, have been found within a short period of time.

Women’s Rights, Gender and Climate Change Law in Africa: Advancing an Equity Agenda

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Addaney ◽  
Chantelle Gloria Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Climate Change Responses ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The consequences of climate change are not only disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable and poorest populations, there are also disparities along gender lines. The connections between climate change, gender equality and women’s rights are not only complicated but also multidimensional. In contrast, most existing studies on gender and climate change action offer a narrow conception of what gender equality and women’s rights mean in the context of climate change action. Considering these thorny linkages between climate change, gender equality and women’s rights in Africa, this article examines the intersection between gender equality, women’s rights and climate change action by focusing on African Union law and the climate change legislative and policy responses from Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The article adopts a doctrinal method and two analytical approaches – the human rights-based approach and insights from feminist approach to law – to argue that since human-rights law places the protection and fulfilment of fundamental human rights and group interests at its core, its legal threshold demands that all actions which can have an impact on human rights, including climate change responses, are bound by its rules. The article argues that gender equality and women’s rights are guaranteed in international and regional law in Africa and therefore provide a legal basis for the integration of gender equality and the protection of women’s rights in national climate change action. 

scholarly journals Energía renovable y el ciclo de vida del bien o servicio limpio en la organización productiva

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Alberto Romero-Infante
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Renewable Energies ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Productive Process ◽  
Reduction Of Emissions ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Technological Improvements ◽  
Supply Systems ◽  
Energy Supply Systems

<p>Las energías renovables son indispensables para que un proceso productivo incremente su eficiencia, mejore su desempeño ambiental y fortalezca su ventaja competitiva en la medida en que su uso sirve para disminuir las emisiones atmosféricas y por lo tanto aporta a la mitigacion del cambio climático. Existe una aproximación de los empresarios al uso de las energías renovables motivada por razones inminentemente prácticas, algunas veces porque sus clientes lo exigen desde certificaciones verdes o de responsabilidad ambiental, otras porque las autoridades ambientales lo requieren y muchas veces porque los sistemas de provision de energia que tienen son muy costosos. Cuando los empresarios o algún funcionario busca implementar las energias renovables se encuentran con una cantidad de obstáculos e incertidumbres mientras que desde diferentes áreas del conocimiento se tienen una serie de herramientas probadas que sirven, al integrarlas, para incrementar la eficacia en el propósito de implementar esas energías.Se presenta en este documento en primer lugar la metodologia del ciclo de vida enmarcada en el enfoque sistemico de las organizaciones, en segundo lugar varias herramientas que permiten manegar el talento humano para que acepten autónomamente ese mejoramiento tecnológico que son las energías renovables y en tercer lugar, se muestran las ventajas que tiene ese manejo sistémico de la organización en la mitigación del cambio climático con el uso de las energias renovables.</p><p class="Pa4"><strong>Abstract </strong></p><p>Renewable energies are essential for a cleaner productive process. These energies improve efficiency, environmental performance and strengthen the competitive advantage of companies. Furthermore, this type of energies reduce air emissions and therefore contributes to the mitigation of climate change. Entrepreneurs implement renewable energy mainly influenced and pressed by external practical reasons. For example, sometimes customers demand from them green certifications or environmental responsibility in operations; in others cases, environmental authorities require reduction of emissions and often, manangers realizes that conventional energy supply systems are very expensive or not safe. Emplo­yees and officers have at their disposition different proven tools that are provided by many areas of knowledge. The integrated application of these tools permits to overcome obstacles and uncertainties encountered in the implementation of renewable energies systems in the company. This document provides three tools that are useful to managers to apply renewable energy systems as follows: 1) The methodology life cycle framed in the systemic approach of organizations, 2) several tools to manage human talent to accept autonomously that technological improvements which are renewable energy and 3) the advan­tages of the systemic management of the organization. With the integrated implementation of these tools the paper shows that renewable energys are key to mitigate climate change.</p>

scholarly journals A Moral Language for Our Time? Human Rights and Christianity in Historical Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Rachel Johnston-White
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Moral Language ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Poor

On 3 October 2020 Pope Francis issued his third encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. Signed in the symbolic location of Assisi, home of St Francis, the encyclical represented the pope's response to the fears and anxieties wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the burning injustices of racism, global inequality and climate change. The encyclical explicitly invoked human rights, criticising the ways in which, ‘in practice, human rights are not equal for all’. As nations and societies succumb to ‘disenchantment and disappointment’, ‘the temptation to build a culture of walls’ to keep out the ‘other’ grows ever greater. The antidote, Francis insisted, is a ‘culture of encounter’ in which it is again possible to ‘rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters who orbit around us’. Priority, too, must be given to ‘the dignity of the poor’ and ‘respect for the natural environment,’ rather than the privileges of the affluent to continue to amass wealth at all costs. Only then – by aligning human rights with the global common good – can rights become truly universal.

Access to energy in Sub-Saharan Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olasupo Owoeye
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Energy access is fundamental to the full enjoyment of not only economic and social rights but also civil and political rights. Whilst the campaign for extending energy access to the world’s most vulnerable populations may be validly anchored on the need to mitigate climate change and promote sustainability, it is exigent to also underscore its human rights significance. In Africa, where most countries have weak environmental regulation and enforcement structures, the climate change and sustainable development rhetoric most commonly used in emphasising the importance of energy access may not yield the desired results. Access to energy is a major issue in Africa and South Asia where a very significant proportion of their populations make use of biomass-sourced fuels to meet most of their energy needs. This has come with some major attendant health, environmental and socio-economic consequences. This article argues that energy access has transcended the contours of climate change and has become a human rights issue. It posits that African Union states may be made to take progressive measures to provide modern energy services through the adjudicatory jurisdiction of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Human rights, harm, and climate change mitigation

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 416-435
Author(s):  
Brian Berkey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractA number of philosophers have resisted impersonal explanations of our obligation to mitigate climate change, and have developed accounts according to which these obligations are explained by human rights or harm-based considerations. In this paper I argue that several of these attempts to explain our mitigation obligations without appealing to impersonal factors fail, since they either cannot account for a plausibly robust obligation to mitigate, or have implausible implications in other cases. I conclude that despite the appeal of the motivations for rejecting the appeal to impersonal factors, such factors must play a prominent role in explaining our mitigation obligations.

scholarly journals Protección a la vivienda en las sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: escenarios y cumplimiento

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-45
Author(s):  
Magda Yadira Robles Garza ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
American System ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Governments

Protection for people or social groups that do not have a home or who have it lost because of wars, internal or external displacement, violence and insecurity, require special attention from States. To address this approach, the criterion or standard established in the Inter-American System of Human Rights with respect to the protection of this right through the connection of rights will then be analyzed. The judgments could set out the standard of protection that from national governments must be afforded to people who lose their homes in these contexts and, on the other hand, the role of the State in complying with these claims, in order to conjecture the autonomous declaration of the right to housing in the judicial headquarters of the region of the Americas.

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