As outlined in the Principles, balance of environmental resources and thus balance of their subsequent health effects is a central part of the environmental justice movement. There are efforts around ...
1) Environmental Justice affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction. 2) Environmental Justice ...
Abandoned and then resurrected in 2020, the Environment Bill is now entering the final stages of its passage through Parliament. This is the UK government’s post-Brexit policy framework for issues ...
In 1987, the Supreme Court categorically prioritised life, health and ecology over unemployment and loss of revenue in the case of M.C. Mehta v. Union of India [(1987) 4 SCC 463]. Now, over three ...
THE principle of non-regression prohibits any recession of environmental law or existing levels of environmental protection and comprises protective norms in the category of non-revocable and ...
Campaigners have accused the government of hypocrisy for setting out environmental protection principles while simultaneously flouting them. UK ministers have just published long-awaited principles ...
New bill omits key ‘precautionary’ principle requiring developers and industry to prove actions will not harm wildlife or habitats as well as ‘polluter pays’ protections The cornerstones of wildlife ...
On April 30, 2006, a new generation of social and environmental standards came into effect. These standards were developed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the private-sector lending ...
The UK government is pressing on with a £27bn road-building programme Campaigners have accused the government of hypocrisy for setting out environmental protection principles while simultaneously ...