Abstract
Part I of this Note first illustrates the science of climate change and the push for biofuel development. Next, this Note uses human rights to define the problems associated with biofuel development in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, and introduces the environmental law framework that can address these human rights violation. Part II details the main human rights violations in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay occurring at the hands of the soy industry, and surveys the main existing certification proposals that attempt to mitigate social and environmental abuses. Finally, Part III proposes ways that developed countries can collectively mitigate the negative human rights and environmental implications from biofuel development beyond their borders by implementing a comprehensive certification scheme in climate change initiatives that contain emissions reduction requirements.
Recommended Citation
Noushin Ketabi,
The Blood of Going Green: Using Environmental Initiatives to Account for the Human Rights Violations of the Green Movement,
32 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1911
(2008).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj/vol32/iss6/4