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This important book provides a comprehensive analysis of good-fit
and home-grown approaches for advancing business and human rights
norms across Africa. It explores the latest developments in law,
regulations, policies, and governance structures across the
continent, focusing on key legal innovations in response to human
rights impacts of business operations and activities. Featuring
contributions from expert scholars and practitioners, the book
provides a complete survey of the multifarious regulatory and
institutional gaps that limit the coherent development and
application of business and human rights law and practice at
national and regional levels in Africa. Chapters discuss practical
barriers to effective implementation, how such barriers could be
addressed through innovative approaches, and the local contexts for
the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights in Africa. Thematic sections offer
conceptual and theoretical reflections on how African countries can
effectively mainstream human rights standards and considerations
into all aspects of development planning and decision-making.
Business and Human Rights Law and Practice in Africa will be a key
resource for academics, practitioners, policy makers and students
in the fields of governance, human rights, corporate law and public
international law, who are interested in responsible and
rights-based business practices in Africa. The guidance and rules
provided for integrating human rights into project design and
implementation will also be useful for corporate bodies and
financial institutions.
Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North
AfricaRegion provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of
the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA
region. This volume introduces readers to the latest developments
in the regulation of climate change across the region, including
the applicable legislation, institutions, and key legal innovations
in climate change financing, infrastructure development, and
education. It outlines participatory and bottom-up legal
strategies-focusing on transparency, accountability, gender
justice, and other human rights safeguards-needed to achieve
greater coherence and coordination in the design, approval,
financing, and implementation of climate response projects across
the region. With contributions from a range of experts in the
field, the collection reflects on how MENA countries can advance
existing national strategies around climate change, green economy,
and low carbon futures through clear and comprehensive legislation.
Taking an international and comparative approach, this book will be
of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners who work
in the areas of climate change, environmental law and policy, and
sustainable development, particularly in relation to the MENA
region.
Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North
AfricaRegion provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of
the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA
region. This volume introduces readers to the latest developments
in the regulation of climate change across the region, including
the applicable legislation, institutions, and key legal innovations
in climate change financing, infrastructure development, and
education. It outlines participatory and bottom-up legal
strategies-focusing on transparency, accountability, gender
justice, and other human rights safeguards-needed to achieve
greater coherence and coordination in the design, approval,
financing, and implementation of climate response projects across
the region. With contributions from a range of experts in the
field, the collection reflects on how MENA countries can advance
existing national strategies around climate change, green economy,
and low carbon futures through clear and comprehensive legislation.
Taking an international and comparative approach, this book will be
of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners who work
in the areas of climate change, environmental law and policy, and
sustainable development, particularly in relation to the MENA
region.
The Palgrave Handbook of Natural Gas and Global Energy
Transitions provides an in-depth and authoritative
examination of the transformative implications of the ongoing
global energy transitions for natural gas markets across the world.
With case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin
America, South America, Australia, and the Middle East, the volume
introduces readers to the latest legal, policy,
technological, and fiscal innovations in natural gas markets in
response to ongoing global energy transitions. It outlines
the risk mitigation strategies and contractual techniques —
focusing on resilience planning, low-carbon business models, green
procurement, climate-smart infrastructure development,
accountability, gender justice, and other sustainability safeguards
— that are required to maximize the full value of natural gas
as a catalyst for a just and equitable energy transition and
for energy security across the world. Written in an accessible
style, this book outlines the guiding principles for
a responsible and low-carbon approach to the design,
financing, and implementation of natural gas development and
commercialization. It is an indispensable text and reference work
for students, scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders in
natural gas, energy, infrastructure, and environmental investments
and projects.
The Palgrave Handbook of Natural Gas and Global Energy Transitions
provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the
transformative implications of the ongoing global energy
transitions for natural gas markets across the world. With case
studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America,
South America, Australia, and the Middle East, the volume
introduces readers to the latest legal, policy, technological, and
fiscal innovations in natural gas markets in response to ongoing
global energy transitions. It outlines the risk mitigation
strategies and contractual techniques - focusing on resilience
planning, low-carbon business models, green procurement,
climate-smart infrastructure development, accountability, gender
justice, and other sustainability safeguards - that are required to
maximize the full value of natural gas as a catalyst for a just and
equitable energy transition and for energy security across the
world. Written in an accessible style, this book outlines the
guiding principles for a responsible and low-carbon approach to the
design, financing, and implementation of natural gas development
and commercialization. It is an indispensable text and reference
work for students, scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders in
natural gas, energy, infrastructure, and environmental investments
and projects.
Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets
analyses the topical and contentious issue of the critical
intersections between local content requirements (LCRs) and the
implementation of sustainable development treaties in global energy
markets including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin
America, South America, Australasia and the Middle East While LCRs
generally aim to boost domestic value creation and economic growth,
inappropriately designed LCRs could produce negative social, human
rights and environmental outcomes, and a misalignment of a
country's fiscal policies and global sustainable development goals.
These unintended outcomes may ultimately serve as disincentive to
foreign participation in a country's energy market. This book
outlines the guiding principles of a sustainable and rights-based
approach - focusing on transparency, accountability, gender justice
and other human rights issues - to the design, application and
implementation of LCRs in global energy markets to avoid
misalignments.
Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets
analyses the topical and contentious issue of the critical
intersections between local content requirements (LCRs) and the
implementation of sustainable development treaties in global energy
markets including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin
America, South America, Australasia and the Middle East While LCRs
generally aim to boost domestic value creation and economic growth,
inappropriately designed LCRs could produce negative social, human
rights and environmental outcomes, and a misalignment of a
country's fiscal policies and global sustainable development goals.
These unintended outcomes may ultimately serve as disincentive to
foreign participation in a country's energy market. This book
outlines the guiding principles of a sustainable and rights-based
approach - focusing on transparency, accountability, gender justice
and other human rights issues - to the design, application and
implementation of LCRs in global energy markets to avoid
misalignments.
This book analyses the topical and contentious issue of the human
rights impacts associated with carbon projects, especially in
developing countries. It outlines a human rights-based approach to
carbon finance as a functional framework for mainstreaming human
rights into the design, approval, finance and implementation of
carbon projects. It also describes the nature and scope of carbon
projects, the available legal options for their financing and the
key human rights issues at stake in their planning and execution.
Written in a user-friendly style, the proposal for a rights-based
due diligence framework through which human rights issues can be
anticipated and addressed makes this book relevant to all
stakeholders in carbon, energy, and environmental investments and
projects.
This book analyses the topical and contentious issue of the human
rights impacts associated with carbon projects, especially in
developing countries. It outlines a human rights-based approach to
carbon finance as a functional framework for mainstreaming human
rights into the design, approval, finance and implementation of
carbon projects. It also describes the nature and scope of carbon
projects, the available legal options for their financing and the
key human rights issues at stake in their planning and execution.
Written in a user-friendly style, the proposal for a rights-based
due diligence framework through which human rights issues can be
anticipated and addressed makes this book relevant to all
stakeholders in carbon, energy, and environmental investments and
projects.
The book provides a systematic examination of the legal, fiscal and
institutional frameworks for the commercial development of
petroleum and solid mineral resources in Africa. First, it
considers the values, assumptions, and guiding principles
underpinning legislation and governance in Africa's extractive
sector. It then provides detailed and comparative evaluations of
regulatory frameworks, pricing, local content, procurement, sales,
and contractual arrangements across African extractive industries.
Further, the book assesses how questions of business and human
rights risks, accountability, corporate social responsibility,
waste and pollution control, environmental justice, and
participatory development have been addressed to date, and how they
could be addressed better in the future. Enhancing readers'
understanding of the geography, sources and scope of extractive
resources in Africa, the book explains how corporations can
effectively identify, mitigate and prevent legal and business risks
when investing in African extractive industries. Lastly, it
discusses the innovative legal strategies and tools needed to
achieve a sustainable and rights-based extractive industry.Written
in a user-friendly style, the book offers a valuable resource for
corporations, investors, environmental and human rights
administrators, advocates, policymakers, judges, international
negotiators, government officials and consultants who advise on, or
are interested in, petroleum and solid mineral investments in
Africa. It also offers students and researchers an authoritative
guidebook to the current state of extractive industry laws and
institutions in Africa. Numerous examples of how international
legal norms could be used to help revitalize the underlying legal
and fiscal regimes in African extractive industries - to make them
more robust, accountable, sustainable and rights-based - round out
the coverage
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