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The Road from Paris to Sustainable Development: Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality into EU External Climate Policies

Final Report

For a long time, the issue of climate change has been approached primarily from an environmental rather than a social perspective. As climate effects on communities have been increasingly felt around the planet during the past decade, the perception of impacts on communities has increased around the globe.

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Power companies operate as if they were above the law. They have policies, but they do not respect them.

The Olkaria projects: A case study of geothermal energy and indigenous communities in Kenya

Study

The study demonstrates the complexity of climate co-funding, the local obstacles in host countries, and the inadequacy of supervisory procedures. It also shows the importance of integrating climate change, human rights and gender equality policies into the development of geothermal projects and their enforcement at country level.

Human rights and gender equality in EU climate actions: A case study of palm oil for biofuels in Indonesia

Study

Indonesia is the world’s largest palm oil producer and exporter. Human rights are being violated in the plantations and the rising exploitation for renewable energy and biofuels brings further violence and criminalisation. How can the EU contribute to a sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia to best preserve nature and human rights?

Human rights violations in palmoil plantations ignored for the purpose of economic growth and efficiency.

Intensive exploitation of natural resources at the expense of indigenous communities generate socio-environmental conflicts.

Extractivism and Renewable Energies: Human Rights Violations in the Context of socio-environmental Conflicts

Study

How to plan and design renewable energy projects as a way to fulfill domestic climate commitments? A Mexican case study into wind farm projects in Oaxaca and infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples.