Keeping It Clean and Green: The Case for Constitutional Environmental Protection Rights

Glazebrook, Susan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21572-8_25

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“…Different results were obtained by different assessments done. Norman Myers [6], who in 1995 predicted 25 million environmental refugees, stated in 2005 that the impact of global warming could potentially displace 200 million people [20]. According to the International Federation of Red Cross, "climate change disasters are currently a bigger cause of population displacement than war and persecution".…”

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TOW environmental migrants in the international refuge law and human rights: an assessment of protection gaps and migrants’ legal protection

Khaskheli

Bishaw

Mapa

et al. 2020

ScienceRise: Juridical Science

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The concept and the rights of environmental refugee have attracted national, international governance and scholars' attention. I have tried to analyses through descriptive and explanatory approach the current trend of environmental refugees' legal protection and its limitation and achievement. Thus, the objective of this research work is first to review legal scholars' work, relating to environmental refugees to show the current trend, relating to environmental refugees protection. Second, to analyse the existing legal framework to show, whether it adequately has governed the issue of environmental refugees' rights and identify the gap. Third, it explains the ways forward. The international refugee law (the 1951 refugee convention and the 1969 OAU refugee convention), the international environmental law, international law on Stateless persons, the international human right law and the system of temporary protected status. Environmental refugees could be referred otherwise as environmental migrants, environmentally displaced persons, climate refugees, climate change refugees, environmental refugees and ecological refugees, thus it implies the same thing in this context. The legal concepts are making that definition, such as well-founded fear, persecution, crossing international border, exclusion from refugee status (undeserving cases), and cessation of refugee status. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees state that 36 million people were displaced by natural disasters in 2009, and about 20 million of those were forced to move for climate change-related issues. According to other estimates, there could be as many as 150 million by 2050. In accordance with the estimates of UN Environment Programme, by 2060 there could be 50 million environmental refugees in Africa alone

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TOW environmental migrants in the international refuge law and human rights: an assessment of protection gaps and migrants’ legal protection

Khaskheli

Bishaw

Mapa

et al. 2020

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“…5 Moreover, a recent consultation conducted by the Constitutional Advisory Panel (2013) has identified that intergenerational equity is one of the key themes in public discussions of New Zealand's constitution. If a reform of New Zealand's constitution were initiated, it could provide a unique opportunity to incorporate the rights of future generations explicitly into New Zealand's first written constitution (Glazebrook, 2011). Although such rights would need to be carefully and contextually worded, providing sufficient detail regarding enforceability and the state's obligations, the IHRC's guidelines should provide a useful starting point.…”

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Protecting the rights of future generations: are constitutional mechanisms an answer

Boston¹,

Stuart²

2015

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In recent decades, concern has been mounting over whether democratic governments have the necessary incentives and capabilities to protect the long-term interests of their citizens, particularly their future citizens. Both the academic literature on governance and everyday political discourse are replete with talk of ‘short-termism’, ‘political myopia’, ‘policy short-sightedness’, a ‘presentist bias’ and weak ‘anticipatory governance. Such concerns have been intensified by the growing capacity of humanity to cause ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible’ damage to critical biophysical systems at a planetary level, for example via anthropogenic climate change3. But flawed environmental stewardship is not the only problem.

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Role of Legislators in Creating and Sustaining Governance for a Sustainable Future

Adachi

2023

Governance for a Sustainable Future

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Keeping It Clean and Green: The Case for Constitutional Environmental Protection Rights

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

TOW environmental migrants in the international refuge law and human rights: an assessment of protection gaps and migrants’ legal protection

TOW environmental migrants in the international refuge law and human rights: an assessment of protection gaps and migrants’ legal protection

Protecting the rights of future generations: are constitutional mechanisms an answer

Role of Legislators in Creating and Sustaining Governance for a Sustainable Future

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