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The two Constitutions of 15 March 1992 and 20 January 2002 concretize this paradigm, [95] by stating a legal obligation of a clean environment, [95] by establishing a principle of compensation and a foundation of criminal nature. [96] By this phenomenon, Congolese environmental law is situated between non-regression and the search for ...
Environmental law is the collection of laws, regulations, agreements and common law that governs how humans interact with their environment. [2] This includes environmental regulations; laws governing management of natural resources , such as forests , minerals , or fisheries; and related topics such as environmental impact assessments .
The currently proposed UN resolution, the Global Pact for the Environment, if adopted, would be the first UN human rights instrument to include the right to a healthy environment. [18] Over 150 states in the UN have independently recognized the right in some form via legislation, litigation, constitutional law, treaty law or other legal ...
(The Center Square) − Louisiana's judicial system is under scrutiny as record-setting legal verdicts, a plaintiff-friendly environment, and skyrocketing auto insurance costs continue to impact ...
Environmental personhood or juridic personhood is a legal concept which designates certain environmental entities the status of a legal person. This assigns to these entities, the rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities and legal liability of a legal personality.
Rights of nature or Earth rights is a legal and jurisprudential theory that describes inherent rights as associated with ecosystems and species, similar to the concept of fundamental human rights. The rights of nature concept challenges twentieth-century laws as generally grounded in a flawed frame of nature as "resource" to be owned, used, and ...
Environmental governance refers to the processes of decision-making involved in the control and management of the environment and natural resources. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), define environmental governance as the "multi-level interactions (i.e., local, national, international/global) among, but not limited to, three main actors, i.e., state, market, and civil ...
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law designed to promote the enhancement of the environment. It created new laws requiring U.S. federal government agencies to evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions and decisions, and it established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).