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Attaining The Right To Environment Through Environmental Impact Assessment, Umair Saleem
Attaining The Right To Environment Through Environmental Impact Assessment, Umair Saleem
Dissertations & Theses
The thesis discusses the interconnection between the right to environment and environmental impact assessment (EIA), elaborating their depth and collective potential to effectively address most – if not all – of the complex and interconnected environmental challenges.
Firstly, the thesis explores the evolution of the environmental laws from the year 1900 and provides a unifying synthesis of the diverse environmental components, obligations, rights, and principles within international, regional, and national environmental laws. Secondly, it identifies the right to environment as a unifying and holistic right that integrates these environmental concepts and encapsulates comprehensive environmental protection. Thirdly, it provides a comparison …
Socio-Economic Considerations Of Living Modified Organisms And Impacts On Trade: Evolution Of Environmental Disputes At The World Trade Organization, Leonardo Munhoz
Socio-Economic Considerations Of Living Modified Organisms And Impacts On Trade: Evolution Of Environmental Disputes At The World Trade Organization, Leonardo Munhoz
Dissertations & Theses
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the most important international treaty concerning the conservation of biodiversity and the Cartagena Protocol is a specific instrument to regulate biosafety measures for Living Modified Organisms ("LMOs"). In this Protocol, apart from mandatory environmental and health risk assessments, the Parties can also voluntarily adopt socio and economic considerations ("SECs") arising from LMOs, as stated in article 26.
However, the definition of SECs is still under negotiation, therefore it does not currently have a definite concept and meaning. Also, the last Conference of the Parties proposed to expand SECs by adding extra cultural, traditional, …