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20 Jun 2016

Author:
Kasumi Maeda & Eniko Horvath, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, in Triple Pundit

Blog: Clean Energy Ministerial participants should consider impacts of renewable energy on human rights

"Businesses Must Respect Human Rights for a Fair Transition to a Renewable Future," 2 Jun 2016

…[W]orld leaders, businesses and investors…gather[ed] for the Clean Energy Ministerial to discuss tangible actions to advance clean energy following the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The event includes the launch of a campaign to convince more companies to commit to sourcing 100 percent renewable energy.  However, discussions around the impacts of these commitments on human rights are palpably absent…Local communities continue to face abuses of their rights to free, prior and informed consent, land, and compensation, and residents are being forcibly displaced to make room for clean-energy projects. Without speaking about these concerns openly, we cannot ensure that a fast transition to clean energy will also be a fair one…The Clean Energy Ministerial meeting and its new initiative for renewable energy can be an opportunity to start discussing…changes…to start breaking down the silos between climate change and human rights policies and practices. [Also refers to Enel, Siemens, and Statkraft.]

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