Un enfoque sobre las finanzas climáticas basado en los derechos humanos

This policy paper advocates for a human rights-based approach to climate finance to ensure that mitigation and adaptation efforts do not violate human rights or cause social and environmental harm. It proposes six guiding principles—including 'Do No Harm' and public participation—and provides detailed recommendations for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to implement robust safeguards, a transparent monitoring system, and an independent grievance mechanism.

• A human rights-based approach to climate finance is a conceptual framework that uses international human rights standards to promote and protect rights, specifically analyzing obligations, inequalities, and vulnerabilities to correct discriminatory practices and unjust power distributions that hinder low-carbon sustainable development.
• The authors identify several core values provided by a human rights-based approach: legal value (based on state obligations), moral value (based on dignity and justice), analytical value (highlighting impacts on vulnerable groups like women, children, and indigenous peoples), and practical value (reducing the risk of actual rights violations).
• The document outlines six guiding principles for climate finance: coherence with international human rights obligations, the 'Do No Harm' approach (ensuring interventions do not cause unacceptable damage to communities or ecosystems), transparency and accountability, public participation in decision-making, equality and non-discrimination, and the integration of these principles into monitoring and implementation.
• The authors argue that while the UNFCCC's Cancun Agreements of 2010 recognized that countries must fully respect human rights in climate actions, this language has not yet been fully implemented in UNFCCC climate funds.
• The document recommends that the Green Climate Fund (GCF) establish a robust institutional protection system consisting of social and environmental safeguard policies, monitoring systems to ensure compliance, and conflict resolution mechanisms to address grievances from affected communities.
• Specific recommendations for GCF safeguards include respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, ensuring Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), and creating a list of excluded investments that are contrary to sustainable development.
• The authors propose that the GCF's grievance mechanism should be guided by principles of effectiveness, legitimacy, accessibility, predictability, equality, transparency, compatibility of rights, and participation, and should have the authority to investigate facts and grant remedies such as compensation or reparation.
• To ensure legitimacy, the document suggests that GCF meetings be open to accredited observers and that a group of 'active observers' from civil society be allowed to make interventions and participate in subcommittees and technical panels.
• The document highlights that climate finance is a massive global challenge, noting a 2007 UNFCCC prediction that annual flows of 200-210 billion USD would be needed by 2030 to stabilize global greenhouse gas emissions, a figure that was updated a year later to be 170 percent higher.

APA

Johl, A., & Lador, Y. (2012). Un enfoque sobre las finanzas climáticas basado en los derechos humanos. Center for International Environmental Law. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ClimateFinance_Feb2012_Espanol.pdf

Chicago

Johl, Alyssa, and Yves Lador. Un enfoque sobre las finanzas climáticas basado en los derechos humanos. Center for International Environmental Law, 2012. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ClimateFinance_Feb2012_Espanol.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{johl2012enfoque, author = {Johl, Alyssa and Lador, Yves}, title = {{Un enfoque sobre las finanzas climáticas basado en los derechos humanos}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2012}, month = apr, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ClimateFinance_Feb2012_Espanol.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }