The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance

Damilola S. Olawuyi is a senior lecturer at Afe Babalola University, Nigeria, where he is also Director of the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. Dr Olawuyi also provides legal advice and services as an energy lawyer with the leading global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Canada.

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.