Jornal of Eslamic Human Rights

Renewable Energies AND Human Right

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

valiollah nasiri 1
Saleh Rezaei Pishrobat 2
Hojjat Salimi Turkmani 3

1 PhD student in International Law, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch

2 Associate professor, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate professor of Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract
Human rights committees are treaty-based institutions that are responsible for monitoring the implementation of human rights treaties through “examination of periodic reports and issuance of concluding observations”, “addressing individual and intergovernmental complaints”, and “preparing general and interpretative comments”. A review of the monitoring procedures and tools of human rights committees shows that, given the connection between climate issues and human rights, some of the concluding observations, general comments and treaty findings of human rights committees are dedicated to assessing the climate commitments of states and, given the adverse effects of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights, they have made recommendations for the development of renewable energies. This study, using a descriptive-analytical method and by studying the monitoring procedures of human rights committees, seeks to examine the views of human rights treaty-based institutions on renewable energies. The results of the study show that from the perspective of human rights committees, renewable energies can solve the problem of climate change and approach human rights. The research findings show that human rights committees have made significant contributions to the normative development of renewable energies and changed the attitude of governments towards correcting undesirable patterns in the energy cycle and the development of renewable energies.

Keywords

Climate change
greenhouse gases
renewable energy
right to a healthy environment
human rights committees

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