Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

The Center for International Environmental Law asserts that geoengineering technologies, including solar radiation modification and carbon dioxide removal, are unproven, unfeasible at scale, and violate human rights obligations. The organization warns that these technologies are being used as excuses to avoid phasing out fossil fuels and notes that unregulated experiments often occur on Indigenous Peoples' territories without consent. It advocates for a rapid, fair fossil fuel phase-out and the adoption of a global binding instrument via the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

• Geoengineering technologies are deemed incompatible with human rights because they are unproven, unavailable, and unfeasible at scale, while failing to address the root causes of climate change.
• Specific geoengineering approaches pose significant risks: solar radiation modification and ocean fertilization may disrupt ecological systems and weather patterns, threatening food security and livelihoods, while carbon dioxide removal methods like direct air capture and enhanced weathering are considered non-viable due to high resource demand and inefficacy.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (2023). Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HRC54-ID-with-Advisory-Committee-1.pdf

Chicago

Center for International Environmental Law. Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. 2023. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HRC54-ID-with-Advisory-Committee-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{centerforinternationalenvironmentallaw2023interactive, author = {{Center for International Environmental Law}}, title = {{Interactive Dialogue with the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee}}, publisher = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2023}, month = sep, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HRC54-ID-with-Advisory-Committee-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }