The document discusses the relationship between environment and human rights. It covers the concept of environment, bases for protecting the environment from an anthropocentric view, how environmental protection relates to human rights issues like health and life, key international documents and treaties, environmental principles, and the role of non-governmental organizations.
Introduction, History, NEQS for waste water,sections of PEPA, Penalties, Environmental tribunals, Environmental protection department, Environmental protection agency, Environmental impact assessment, Initial environmental examination, are given in this presentation.
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Background of Environmental Laws: International ContextPreeti Sikder
Learning Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
a) trace the development of laws in the environmental arena
b) identify the needs and goals which led to today's environmental legal regime
c) critically assess the current requirements the latest legal documents must bear in order to meet the generational needs
Introduction, History, NEQS for waste water,sections of PEPA, Penalties, Environmental tribunals, Environmental protection department, Environmental protection agency, Environmental impact assessment, Initial environmental examination, are given in this presentation.
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Background of Environmental Laws: International ContextPreeti Sikder
Learning Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
a) trace the development of laws in the environmental arena
b) identify the needs and goals which led to today's environmental legal regime
c) critically assess the current requirements the latest legal documents must bear in order to meet the generational needs
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is also known as Stockholm Conference and marked as a turning point in the development of international environmental politics.
It was the UN’s first major conference on international environmental issues.
The meeting agreed upon a Declaration
Containing 26 Principles
An Action plan containing 109 Recommendations
A Resolution on institutional and financial arrangements
This was the first step toward “ Sustainability Revolution
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In the wake of Bhopal tragedy, the Government of India enacted the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (EPA) under article 253 of the constitution. The purpose of the Act is to act as an “umbrella” legislation designed to provide a frame work for Central government co-ordination of the activities of various central and state authorities established under previous laws, such as Water Act & Air Act. The potential scope of the Act is broad, with “environment” defined to include water, air and land and the inter-relationships which exist among water, air and land, and human beings and other living creatures, plants, micro-organisms and property. Environment protection rules were also enacted as a corollary to this Act.
Historical Background of Environmental Laws and Development Policies: Interna...Preeti Sikder
Learning Outcome: Students will
a) become familiar with the global timeline of growth, setbacks and goals in the sector of international environmental law and sustainable development.
b) learn about the interconnections between environmental law and development policies.
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is also known as Stockholm Conference and marked as a turning point in the development of international environmental politics.
It was the UN’s first major conference on international environmental issues.
The meeting agreed upon a Declaration
Containing 26 Principles
An Action plan containing 109 Recommendations
A Resolution on institutional and financial arrangements
This was the first step toward “ Sustainability Revolution
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In the wake of Bhopal tragedy, the Government of India enacted the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (EPA) under article 253 of the constitution. The purpose of the Act is to act as an “umbrella” legislation designed to provide a frame work for Central government co-ordination of the activities of various central and state authorities established under previous laws, such as Water Act & Air Act. The potential scope of the Act is broad, with “environment” defined to include water, air and land and the inter-relationships which exist among water, air and land, and human beings and other living creatures, plants, micro-organisms and property. Environment protection rules were also enacted as a corollary to this Act.
Historical Background of Environmental Laws and Development Policies: Interna...Preeti Sikder
Learning Outcome: Students will
a) become familiar with the global timeline of growth, setbacks and goals in the sector of international environmental law and sustainable development.
b) learn about the interconnections between environmental law and development policies.
HISTORICAL CONCEPT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN INDIA AND THE WORLD, ROLES OF MoEF, CPCB AND SPCB and 5 IMPORTANT POINTS ON AIR, WATER AND LAND POLLUTION FROM INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS
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Unit Learning Objectives
After reading this unit, you will:
· Explain how international environment law evolved, identifysome of its major principles and concepts, and understandthe contexts in which they apply
· Identify some of the main instruments (treaties/conventions, declarations, resolutions) that inform the substantive content of international environment law, and discuss critically some of the challenges to the making and implementation of international environment law.
· Identify some of the rules and regulations created to address climate change and conserve biological diversity, and understand some of the main challenges to their effective implementation.
Unit Plan and Summary
This unit discusses the role of international law in the governance of the global environment and sustainable development. We begin with an examination of the evolution of international environment law, highlighting the major UN sponsored initiatives that have given impetus to the elaboration of new principles, concepts and agreements, especially the notion of 'sustainable development'. We then proceed to discuss two examples of international environment treaties (climate change and biological diversity) that attempt to translate notions of sustainable development into binding rules and regulations embodying some of the key principles of global environmental governance that have emerged over the past 40 years.
Outline
1. The Evolution of International Environment Law
2. Making and Implementing International Environment Law
3. Climate Change
4. Biological Diversity
Readings
· Fuentes, Ximena. “International Law-Making in the Field of Sustainable Development: The Unequal Competition Between Development and the Environment.” International Environmental Agreements 2, no. 2 (2002): 109–133. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020990026398.
Readings for Briefs
· Hiskes, Richard P. “The Right to a Green Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and Intergenerational Justice.” Human Rights Quarterly 27, no. 4 (2005): 1346–1364.
· Risse, Mathias. “The Right to Relocation: Disappearing Island Nations and Common Ownership of the Earth.” Ethics & International Affairs 23, no. 3 (2009). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2009.00218.x.
· McIntyre, Owen, and Mosedale, Thomas. “The Precautionary Principle as a Norm of Customary International Law.” Journal of Environmental Law 9, no. 2 (1997): 221–241. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jel/9.2.221.
Key Concepts
· Precautionary Principle
· Polluter Pays Principle
· Common Heritage Principle (Res Communis)
· Common but Differentiated Responsibilities
· Framework-Protocol Approach
· State Responsibility (Good Neighbourliness)
· Transboundary Environmental harm
· Stockholm Declaration
· Rio Declaration
· Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation
· Sustainable Development
· Access & Allocation
· Public Goods, Private Goods and Merit Goods
· Environmental Refugees
· Carbon offsets & Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs)
· Carbon Sin ...
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Unit Learning Objectives
After reading this unit, you will:
· Explain how international environment law evolved, identify some of its major principles and concepts, and understand the contexts in which they apply
· Identify some of the main instruments (treaties/conventions, declarations, resolutions) that inform the substantive content of international environment law, and discuss critically some of the challenges to the making and implementation of international environment law.
· Identify some of the rules and regulations created to address climate change and conserve biological diversity, and understand some of the main challenges to their effective implementation.
Unit Plan and Summary
This unit discusses the role of international law in the governance of the global environment and sustainable development. We begin with an examination of the evolution of international environment law, highlighting the major UN sponsored initiatives that have given impetus to the elaboration of new principles, concepts and agreements, especially the notion of 'sustainable development'. We then proceed to discuss two examples of international environment treaties (climate change and biological diversity) that attempt to translate notions of sustainable development into binding rules and regulations embodying some of the key principles of global environmental governance that have emerged over the past 40 years.
Outline
1. The Evolution of International Environment Law
2. Making a.
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2. PRESENTATION
• Environment and human rights
• Subject human rights
• Submitted by Aleena 68
Amna 88
Rimsha 86
Aqsa 84
• Submitted to Dr Umair
3. TABLE OF CONTENT
The concept of environment
The bases for the protection of environment
The protection of environment as a human rights
issue
Main international documents and treaties
Key environmental principles
Non governmental organizations
4. The
environment
1. THE CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENT
• There is no single definition of
environment that has been adopted
by national regulatory systems or
regional international agreements
• However, there is a broad agreement
that it refers to a global system in
constant interaction, which consist of
physical, chemical, biological and
scio-cultural elements.
5. 2. THE BASES FOR THE PROTECTION
OF ENVIRONMENT
• During the 60s, a global movement was born which sought to regulate
and provide legal protection to environment
• There has since been a discussion about what is the legal value that has
to be protected or safeguarded.
Some favor an eccentric approach, which
considers that the object of protection is
environment as such, with all its
components, like air, sea, land, flora, or
fauna. That is the environment would b an
autonomous legal value worth protecting
in itself.
On the other hand, there are those who
proclaim an anthropocentric approach
according to which environmental
protection is justified. Only to extend that it
is directly related to individual legal rights,
such as life and health of people
6. 2. THE BASES FOR THE PROTECTION
OF ENVIRONMENT
• The majority of the environmentalists has adopted an anthropocentric
approach, and in some cases, a moderate anthropocentric approach,
depending on the degree of the interrelationship they see between the
environment and individual legal rights.
• The provisions of the UN Stockholm Declaration of 1972 are a clear
example of the anthropocentric view, as they focus the concerns and
efforts to protect the environment on the fact that it is essential for
human well-being and to the enjoyment of basic human rights.
8. 3. THE PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
AS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
• Although they are distinct and separate fields, human rights and
environmental protection are closely related to the point that they are
actually interdependent. Human rights are based on respect for
fundamental human attributes such as dignity, equality and freedom,
and the proper attainment of these depends on an enabling
environment.
• In addition, adequate protection of the environment depends on the
exercise of human rights, such as freedom of expression and
information, which are vital for the development of appropriate and
transparent environmental policies. Environmental degradation also
affects directly the enjoyment of various human rights including the
rights to life, health, food and water.
9. 3. THE PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
AS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
• The relationship between the human rights and environment has been recognized
into two ways:-
• In this regard, the tendency of human rights bodies has been to adopt this
second form of recognition, emphasizing the green dimension of human rights.
(a) Through the proclamation of a new
right to a healthy environment, safe
and sustainable.
(b) By deepening the links between human rights
already recognized –such as rights to life and
health- and environment.
10. 3. THE PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
AS A HUMAN RIGHT ISSUE
• There are two sets of rights which are closely linked to the environment.
• Firstly, rights whose enjoyment is particularly affected by environmental degradation. Thus, specific
environmental threats have been identified as having a damaging effect on certain rights.
• For example, with regard to the right to life and health, there are important threats such as the
inadequate management of toxic and hazardous wastes, or the effects that climate change will generate
on the rights to life, health, food, water, etc. Some human rights treaties, including the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, explicitly refer to this relationship. Regarding the human right to water, it was
recognized as such in 2002,from the General Comment No. 15 of the Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, considering it as an implicit element, but essential, to the right to enjoy an adequate
level of living,
11. 3. THE PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
AS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
• Secondly, there are those rights whose exercise is conducive to a more appropriate and
transparent environmental policy formulation. Examples are the rights to freedom of
expression (including the right to access to information), to association, to participate in
decision-making processes, and to a legal remedy. These rights not only allow a better
protection of the environment, but also of those human rights that are more susceptible to
environmental degradation. However, there is still a lack of determination of the specific
obligations that human rights law imposes in order to protect the environment
• Finally, it is useful to emphasize the concept of "environmental justice", which was
incorporated to the environmental debate in the United States in the seventies. This arises
from the recognition that vulnerable groups have been particularly affected by environmental
pollution and depletion of natural resources
12. 3. THE PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
AS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
• The concept of environmental justice has two dimensions:
These two dimensions are an application of the principles of equality, non-discrimination and
participation
which are recognized in multiple declarations and treaties on human rights.
Firstly, a distributive dimension that points
to equitable distribution of environmental
goods such as parks and environmental
bad effects such as industries.
Secondly, a participatory dimension which
rests on the assumption that citizens have the
ability to influence certain environmental
decision-making processes.
13. 4.MAIN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS
AND TREATIES
• The right to a healthy environment was established only in the second half of the 20th century. This
rather late recognition is due to the fact that human intervention on the environment became stronger
only since the Industrial Revolution. It grew further after the Second World War. Starting in the 1960s,
the environmental movement created awareness about the close relationship between human beings
and the environment. In 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in
Stockholm, which led to a declaration of principles by which States recognized the importance of the
environment to human well-being, and agreed to a series of recommendations and action plans.
• The so-called "Stockholm Declaration ", is the first effort of the international community to introduce in
the political agenda the environmental dimension as a condition for economic and social progress . That
same year 1972, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) was created, to coordinate the efforts of the
United Nations organization for the environment. Since that time, the international community has
adopted several other agreements in order to address problems related to the environment in its various
areas, such as climate change, depletion of the ozone layer, conservation of biological diversity, etc.
14. 4. MAIN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS
AND TREATIES
• In the 80s, the approval of the World Charter for Nature stands out . This charter proclaims a number of
principles of environmental conservation . Other relevant international instruments are:
• (a) the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea, which governs inter alia the exploitation,
conservation and pollution of the sea and marine resources;
• (b) the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer; and
• (c) the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
• Later on, in 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de
Janeiro, where the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was adopted. This document is
famous for introducing the concept of "sustainable development.
15. 4. MAIN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS
AND TREATIES
In the same decade, the following environmental treaties were adopted:
(a) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;
(b) the Kyoto Protocol, which imposes binding targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases for
industrialized countries;
(c) the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity; and
(d) the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious
Drought and Desertification .
Regionally, the human rights agreements adopted after the 70s include the right to a healthy
environment. The same has happened at the national level, where most countries have enacted laws aimed at
protecting the environment, many of which have enshrined this right in their Constitution. However, despite
the many international environmental instruments and recognitions in national legal systems, the right to a
healthy environment is not recognized explicitly as such in any global agreement.
16. 5. KEY ENVIRONMENTAL
PRINCIPLES
• International agreements and declarations on the environment have
established principles which are useful for interpreting specific legal
rules and also to adopt and implement environmental policy tools.
• PRINCIPLES:-
• The precautionary principle may be highlighted. According to it , in
the event of threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full
scientific certainty must not be used by States as a reason for
postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation. This
principle is enshrined in the Rio Declaration of 1992,and has also been
included in subsequent agreements such as the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety,of the year 2000
17. 5. KEY ENVIRONMENTAL
PRINCIPLES
• The Rio Declaration also establishes the principle of sustainable development. This concept refers to
the capability to meet current needs without compromising the resources and possibilities of future
generations .The same Rio Declaration stresses the importance of participation and access to
environmental information.
• This principle of participation has inspired other agreements, such as the Convention on Access to
Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters ,
that is, the Aarhus Convention, of 1998.
• Another important principle is the "polluter pays" principle, which imposes a duty to the polluter o
bear the expenses and costs of minimizing or controlling the pollutant emissions that are generated.
• On another hand, the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, of
1992, are a clear reflection of the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" of States,
for example by imposing certain obligations that apply only to industrialized countries, among other
principles
18. 6. NON-GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS
• In addition to international and national legal bodies and institutions, many non-
governmental organizations for the protection of the environment have been created .
• At the international level, some of the best known are Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and
Oceana. Many others have been formed in numerous countries .
• As it has happened with other issues of public ethics, such as human rights and anti-
corruption , the non-governmental organizations for the protection of the environment
have contributed greatly to increasing global awareness about the issue on which they
focus, and to bringing pressure for the adoption of international agreements as well as
national laws, institutions and public policies for the protection of the environment.