Human rights and land-based carbon mitigation

Abstract

This chapter examines the threat that land-based climate mitigation actions could pose to human rights and the potential for human rights legal frameworks to guard against these risks. It argues that strengthening land rights, and the rights of those who protect land and the environment, directly contributes to combating climate change, making a rights-based approach to land use a crucial element of implementing the Paris Agreement. The chapter also argues that the ability of the international community to achieve climate and development objectives relies on the protection of human rights that both depend on, and relate to, the environment. Increased competition for natural resources has con..