Getting Down to Business

26 Getting Down to Business: putting human rights at the heart of a just and equitable energy transition Box 4: International recognition of relevant human rights Mining and mineral and metal processing industries can affect the fulfilment of a range of human rights, including the right to livelihood, which has been recognised as deriving from the right to life, liberty and the security of person,. [...] Getting Down to Business: putting human rights at the heart of a just and equitable energy transition 31 Some of the territories of the Quilombola and riverine communities overlap with the protected Saracá-Taquera The adverse social and National Forest.103 Since 2017, the Brazilian government has environmental impacts of been conducting procedures to ensure the regularisation of MRN’s mining opera. [...] According to research by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, ‘most of [the largest wind and solar energy producer companies in the world] lack the essential human rights policies to avoid abuse of communities and workers’.288 And ‘none of the companies analysed are currently fully meeting their responsibility to respect human rights, as defined by the UN Guiding Principles’.289 The repo. [...] and status as indigenous peoples of all four communities is recognised by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Sources: Rights.300 The Rendille ascribe particular cultural significance to The changing value of land in the land as the traditional site for the Galgulame ceremony that Northern Kenya: the case of Lake celebrates the transition of young people into adulthood; and a Turkana Wind. [...] Although the court did not see fit to nullify the LTWPP, it did rule that the setting aside of the land was ‘irregular, unlawful and unconstitutional’ and gave the other defendants in the case (Marsarbit County Government, the Attorney General, The Chief Land Registrar and the National Land Commission) one year to ‘comply with existing law’, failing which the suit land ‘shall revert to the communi.