scholarly journals IN THE MAKING OF A BETTER WORLD: U N SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, 2030

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Rupali Daimari ◽  
Dr. Basanta Kalita
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Right ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

Sustainable development can be defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The Brundtland Commission Report 1987 defines Sustainable Development thus “Sustainable Development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” From the very beginning the United Nations have taken the initiative to make Sustainable Development a reality to protect our planet from degradation and depletion in various forms. The Declaration of the UN Conference on the Human Environment or Stockholm Declaration was adopted on June, 1972 by the UN Conference on the Human Environment at the 21st plenary meeting as the first document in International Environmental law to recognize the right to a healthy environment. In the declaration, the nations agreed to accept responsibility for any environmental effects caused by their actions. Keeping this in view the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, adopted 27 principles intended to guide future sustainable development around the world in tune with the Stockholm Declaration 1972 on Human Environment. In this paper an attempt would be made to study the various aspects of sustainable development especially reducing inequalities in all forms, including the empowerment of women and girls’ and the most marginalized. To focus on balanced and sustainable economic growth with employment creation which is fundamental for addressing the multi-dimensional nature of poverty and which must be decoupled from environmental degradation. KEYWORDS: Degradation, Depletion, Empowerment, Poverty, Global Challenge

scholarly journals Depleting Time Itself: The Plight of Today’s “Human” Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 361-369
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Right ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
Business As Usual

Earth, and its human societies, are seized with the triple crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pervasive and escalating levels of pollution. In the 50 years since the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE), States and UN Environment Program (UNEP) have created an entirely new body of international environmental law, and agreed on the UN Sustainable Development Goals for further socio-economic developments to help the 7.9 billion people on Earth today, and the 1.5 more billion expected soon. The article highlights the accomplishments of the past five decades, launched in Stockholm. However, beyond depleting the resources of Earth’s natural and physical environment, humanity has also depleted time itself. There is not enough time left to permit the pace of environmental law-making to lead to success. Political will has eroded too, leaving “business as usual” to continue to harm the environment. Fortunately, most nations have recognized the right to the environment, and the UN General Assembly is asked to do so in 2022. At the same time, courts around the world are increasingly enforcing environmental rights. If courts world-wide begin to enforce the right to the environment, pathways to attaining sustainable development can be developed beyond Stockholm+50 (2022).

scholarly journals COMPENSATION FOR ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (08) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Leila KRACHE
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Environmental Damages ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Right

The right to a healthy environment is one of the rights of peoples and present and ‎future generations, especially in light of modern technological developments that ‎have contributed greatly to the rate of environmental pollution, which has ‎multiplied environmental damage, and to confront these environmental damages, ‎there were many efforts at the international and internal levels.‎ ‎In keeping with comparative legislation, the legislator introduced the first law ‎for the protection of the environment under Law 10/03 relating to the protection ‎of the environment within the framework of sustainable development, which is ‎characterized by its preventive and deterrent nature, but it did not provide for ‎civil penalties related to compensation for environmental damage, which means ‎the implementation of the traditional rules recognized in the field of Civil liability ‎that is no longer appropriate given the specificity of environmental damage‎‎‎. Keywords: EEnvironmental Damage, Environment, Environmental Responsibility, ‎Compensation, Environmental Pollution, Implementation, Sustainable ‎Development

scholarly journals The Anthropocentric Ontology of International Environmental Law and the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards an Ecocentric Rule of Law in the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis J. Kotzé ◽  
Duncan French
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Development Goals

In this article we argue that the Anthropocene’s deepening socio-ecological crisis amplifies demands on, and exposes the deficiencies of, our ailing regulatory institutions, including that of international environmental law (iel). Many of the perceived failures of iel have been attributed to the anthropocentric, as opposed to the ecocentric, ontology of this body of law. As a result of its anthropocentric orientation and the resultant deficiencies, iel is unable to halt the type of human behaviour that is causing the Anthropocene, while it exacerbates environmental destruction, gender and class inequalities, growing inter- and intra-species hierarchies, human rights abuses, and socio-economic and ecological injustices. These are the same types of concerns that the recently proclaimed Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) set out to address. The sdgs are, however, themselves anthropocentric; an unfortunate situation which reinforces the anthropocentrism of iel and vice versa. Considering the anthropocentric genesis of iel and the broader sdgs framework, this article sets out to argue that the anthropocentrism inherent in the ontological orientation of iel and the sdgs risks exacerbating Anthropocene-like events, and a more ecocentric orientation for both is urgently required to enable a more ecocentric rule of law to better mediate the human-environment interface in the Anthropocene. Our point of departure is that respect for ecological limits is the only way in which humankind, acting as principal global agents of care, will be able to ensure a sustainable future for human and non-human constituents of the Earth community. Correspondingly, the rule of law must also come to reflect such imperatives.

scholarly journals Az egészséges környezethez való jog, mint alapvető emberi jog – Lehetséges megközelítések az egyes emberi jogvédelmi mechanizmusok gyakorlata alapján, különös tekintettel az őslakos népeket érintő kérdésekre

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (29) ◽  
pp. 133-170
Author(s):  
György Marinkás
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The Third ◽  
Protection Mechanisms ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Right

The aim of the author is to examine the nexus between the development of the indigenous peoples’ rights – which came like a blast – and the prevalence of the right to a healthy environment. As another goal, the author aims to reveal how the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights can facilitate the realisation of environmental protection and sustainable development goals. In order to achieve his goals, the author – after clarifying the definitions in the first chapter – introduces the indigenous peoples and healthy environment related practice of the three regional human rights protection mechanisms – namely the European, the Inter-American and the African – in the second chapter. In the third chapter, the author briefly introduces those rights of the indigenous peoples, which could serve the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights and the positive and negative examples. The author draws his conclusions in the last chapter.

scholarly journals Environmental Licensing Vs. Equitable and Sustainable Development: The Incidence of the Principle of Proportionality as a Weighing and Choice Instrument in the Brazilian Judicial System

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Athena De Albuquerque Farias ◽  
Maria Paula Silvestre Campelo ◽  
Francisca Ergovânia Batista de Brito
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Environmental Licensing ◽  
Principle Of Proportionality ◽  
The Right

Abstract: The increase in the chances of potential environmental catastrophes due to excessive anthropic activity has caused society to turn its efforts to protect the environment. The notion of Sustainable Development was raised aiming economic growth based on the rational use of existing natural resources, for the purpose of preserving them for future generations. The concept of Equitable and Sustainable Development was created, which encompasses several aspects of society besides economic and environmental, with the main purpose of stimulate socially equitable development together with a sustainable environment. Environmental licensing consists of an administrative instrument used by the State to regulate potentially harmful activities to the environment. In this, it is sometimes necessary to consider constitutional principles, which requires verification of which should prevail, depending on the conflicting case. The present study defends the effectiveness of the use of the Principle of Proportionality in the act of weighing constitutionally protected interests, where the particularities of the concrete case must be analyzed in order to verify which institute should overlap, seeking the harmonization between free enterprise and the right to a balanced environment, these being the main principles involved in environmental licensing. Keywords: Environmental Law. Administrative law. Sustainable Development. Environmental license. Principle of proportionality.

scholarly journals Environmental Policy, Public Health and Human Rights: Assessing the Regional Regulation on Waste

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Toar Neman Palilingan ◽  
Donna Okthalia Setiabudhi ◽  
Toar K.R. Palilingan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Domestic Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
The Right

Everyone has the right to a good and healthy environment as part of human rights. Hence, to actualize the right to a good and healthy environment, the community or everyone has the right to environmental information related to the role in environmental management. The research is a socio-juridical. The results show that the management of human environment in Manado is implemented through the establishment and implementation of local regulations. The issuance of local regulations related to environmental law enforcement are local regulations on Environmental Protection and Management; Domestic Wastewater Management; and Waste Management and Cleaning Service Fees. However, the three local regulations have not been implemented optimally. Even the local regulation on the Waste Management and Cleaning Service Fees provides regulations that are not in accordance with the needs of the community in waste management and not in accordance with the laws and regulations related to waste.

scholarly journals Sustained sustainable development actions of China from 1986 to 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingsheng Liu ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Jiaming Zhang ◽  
Xiaoming Wang ◽  
Yuan Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Levels ◽  
The Right ◽  
Resource Conditions

AbstractAchieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a long-term task, which puts forward high requirements on the sustainability of related policies and actions. Using the text analysis method, we analyze the China National Sustainable Communities (CNSCs) policy implemented over 30 years and its effects on achieving SDGs. We find that the national government needs to understand the scope of sustainable development more comprehensively, the sustained actions can produce positive effects under the right goals. The SDGs selection of local governments is affected by local development levels and resource conditions, regions with better economic foundations tend to focus on SDGs on human well-being, regions with weaker foundations show priority to basic SDGs on the economic development, infrastructures and industrialization.

Pharmaceutical pollution and sustainable development goals: Going the right way?

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 100428
Author(s):  
Helena de Oliveira Souza ◽  
Rafaela dos Santos Costa ◽  
Gabrielle Rabelo Quadra ◽  
Marcos Antônio dos Santos Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals GREEN CONSTITUTION INDONESIA (DISKURSUS PARADIGMATIK PEMBANGUNAN BERKELANJUTAN)

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Lucas Prabowo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Hard Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Good Environment

Efforts to meet the economic needs of humans has resulted in severe damage to the ecosystem. Being aware that there is damage to natural resources and ecosystem are getting worse, various efforts underway to hold international conventions in the field of environmental protection has resulted in agreements, both of which are binding (hard law) and non-binding (soft law). Participating countries adopted the convention rules agrred up on into their legaislation, and even to strengthen the protection and enforcement of laws relating to environmental protection and the right to a good environment for the present dan future generations, environmental norms are then contained in the constitution including the Indonesian constitution, namely the post-UUD 1945 amandement. Keywords: environmental damage, international environmental law damage, intergerational equity, sustainable development, and constitution.

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