Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - Item 5

The Center for International Environmental Law, FIAN International, and Earthjustice criticize the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee for failing to conduct meaningful consultations with Indigenous Peoples' organizations and rural communities regarding a study on 'new technologies for climate protection'. The organizations argue that the term is 'deliberately vague' compared to the established term 'geoengineering' and that the study's current outline is biased by assuming the benefits of such technologies rather than objectively analyzing their 'profound, large-scale, foreseeable and irreversible human rights impacts'.

• The authors contend that the Advisory Committee failed to conduct proper consultations with Indigenous Peoples' organizations, noting that an informal meeting with a few experts was incorrectly characterized as an event with representatives in resolution 28/1.
• The document argues that meaningful consultations with Indigenous Peoples' organizations and rural communities are essential because these groups and their lands are frequently the targets of geoengineering projects due to 'colonial extractivism' and 'environmental injustices'.
• The authors criticize the Advisory Committee's use of the phrase 'new technologies for climate protection' as a 'deliberately vague' alternative to the consensus term 'geoengineering', and claim the study's outline is biased toward assuming the benefits of these technologies.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (2022). Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - Item 5. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/HRC51-Statement-on-AC-report-on-geoengineering_Sept-2022.pdf

Chicago

Center for International Environmental Law. Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - Item 5. 2022. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/HRC51-Statement-on-AC-report-on-geoengineering_Sept-2022.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{centerforinternationalenvironmentallaw2022interactive, author = {{Center for International Environmental Law}}, title = {{Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - Item 5}}, publisher = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2022}, month = sep, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/HRC51-Statement-on-AC-report-on-geoengineering_Sept-2022.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }