Courts Key Deciding On Right To Clean Environment And Its Legal Protection - IAJ President
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 6. The courts play
a key role in making decisions regarding the right to a clean
environment and legal mechanisms for its protection, President of
the International Association of Judges (IAJ), Duro Sessa, told
reporters on the sidelines of the international conference Law &
Climate in Baku today, Trend reports.
“Today's conference is crucial and raised a community concern.
The debates revolve around the right to a clean environment and
legal protections. These concerns were mostly discussed in science
until recently. However, they are now jurisprudence. The conference
focuses on how to implement this right in individual countries
because courts make such judgments. In actual life, how does it
look? How can environmental rights be enforced? Precedents are
mostly from the European Court of Human Rights. However, questions
remain. The right to a clean environment-is it an international
human right or simply guaranteed at the national level?” he
said.
According to him, the second hurdle is that environmental
problems know no borders.
“This is a global problem affecting many states. For me, the
most important question is: will there be the political will to
change the approach to this problem and develop new protection
mechanisms? Because right now everyone in the world realizes that
something alarming is happening. Everyone sees it, but many people
prefer to stay on the sidelines, not wanting to delve into the
problem,” he added.
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