Beyond Climate Due Diligence
Fossil Fuels, ‘Red Lines’ and Reparations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13019241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Dehm (0000-0001-9495-6705, La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-179 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business and Human Rights Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2057-0198 • E-ISSN: 2057-0201 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/bhj.2023.30 |
| OpenAlex | W4385815435 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
The scale and scope of the climate crisis and its drastically worsening impacts means that even as a ‘climate due diligence’ obligation is increasingly taking shape as a dimension of human rights due diligence, there is also growing evidence of the limitations of this emerging norm. This article provides four critiques of climate due diligence based on its insufficiency, its conceptual ambiguity, its operational limitations, and its structural limitations. It argues that these critiques could be addressed by regulatory reform that draw clear ‘red lines’ based on the need to prevent the development of any new fossil fuel and address the ‘corporate capture’ of regulatory institutions by the fossil fuel industry. Additionally, it calls for reparations to ensure effective access to a remedy for existing and potential future climate-related human rights impacts that business has caused or contributed to
Ambiguity · Business · Climate change · Due diligence · Economics · Environmental resource management · Fossil fuel · Law and economics · Natural resource economics · Obligation · Political science · Scope (computer science · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Computer Science · Corporate Law and Human Rights · Engineering · Environmental law and policy · Law · Ecology · Finance
Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations
The climate responsibilities of industrial carbon producers
Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854–2010
Fossil fuel supply and climate policy
Towards a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
The Mutual Fund Industry and the Protection of Human Rights
Time to pay the piper
Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)
Governing fossil fuel production in the age of climate disruption
Stranded assets and stranded resources
Changing images of climate change
Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
The Concept of ‘Due Diligence’ in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
The Concept of ‘Due Diligence’ in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power
Queensland’s Human Rights Act
Advocating inaction
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |