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Protecting The Environment In Sharia (Islamic Law)- حماية البيئة في الشريعة الإسلامية, Professor Mohamed Ahmed Abu Leil

UAEU Law Journal

The paper discusses some environmental connotations and values under Islamic guidelines leading to protecting a livable environment t, as follows:

I. The Holy Qur’an verses on the various aspects of environment. I l. The extent of human control over environmental resources, and forbidding its destruction. Ill Positive measures i n Islamic legislations for environment protection.

The Case For A Climate-Smart Update Of The Africa Mining Vision, Perrine Toledano, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Karan Bhulwaka, Kojo Busia

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

The 2009 Africa Mining Vision (AMV) provides guidance for the industrialization of African countries by leveraging their mining sector. However, the global context has changed since its adoption. As a result, it does not include guidance on how governments should embrace the climate change agenda as an opportunity for better and further industrialization, deeper linkages, and sustainable development.

There are many ways to look at the implications of international climate change policy for Africa, including through the increased extraction of minerals needed in clean energy application and the greening of mines. The localization of global value chains – induced by …

Quantitative Valuation In Environmental Law, Arden Rowell

Notre Dame Law Review

Quantitative valuations of environmental impacts affect and sometimes determine the substance and stringency of many environmental laws. At the same time, a constellation of psychological factors makes environmental impacts unusually difficult for individuals to see, understand, and care about. As a result, the environmental valuations that inform environmental law are particularly vulnerable to contextual cues, small shifts in framing, and methodological choice, and can lead to sincere but wildly varying valuations of the same underlying environmental impacts. These distortions become increasingly apparent when valuations are quantified, and in fact can be used predictably to push quantified valuations “up” and “down” …

The Right Of Access To Environmental Information, A Fundamental Human Right?, Musa Shehada

UAEU Law Journal

The aim of this research is to discuss the right of access to information on issues of environment as a fundamental human right. The research reviews the international, European and French efforts being exerted to approve"the right to environment" as well as"the right of access to environmental information" as a principle among the general principles of the environmental law in addition to the means and effect of approving such right.

The research stressed in its conclusion that the right to acquire information on environmental issues is deemed as "right of freedom" among the general freedoms according to Article No. 34 …

A Response To Calls For Sec Mandated Esg Disclosure, Amanda M. Rose

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This Article responds to recent proposals calling for the SEC to adopt a mandatory ESG-disclosure framework. It illustrates how the breadth and vagueness of these proposals obscures the important--and controversial-- policy questions that would need to be addressed before the SEC could move forward on the proposals in a principled way. The questions raised include some of the most contested in the field of corporate and securities law, such as the value of interjurisdictional competition for corporate charters, the right way to conceptualize the purpose of the corporation, the proper allocation of managerial power as between the board and shareholders, …

Indigenous Rights In International Law: A Focus On Extraction In The Arctic, Aine Healey Lawlor

Honors Projects

This paper seeks to evaluate the evolution and future of Indigenous rights in extractive industry on a global scale and uses the Arctic both to explore the complexity of these rights and to provide paths forward in advancing Indigenous self-determination. Indigenous rights lack a strong international foundation and are often dependent upon local and domestic regimes, yet this reality is currently shifting. The state of extraction internationally, particularly in the Arctic, is also facing major uncertainty in the coming decades as demand continues to rise. Indigenous rights and the rules governing extractive industry intersect because much of the world’s remaining …