Günther & Eckardt (2022): Human Rights and Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: Potential Limits to BECCS and DACCS Deployment
Günther, Philipp, and Felix Ekardt. IN: Land 11, no. 12: 2153. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11122153
This paper aims to analyze the impact of BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) and DACCS (direct air carbon capture and storage) deployment on human rights from the methodological perspective of a legal interpretation of international law. It shows that a large-scale BECCS strategy, which inevitably requires enormous land-use changes, will most likely infringe upon the right to food, the right to water, and the right to a healthy environment.