According to the Royal College of Physicians, air pollution is linked to around 40,000 premature deaths each year in the UK. Posing several other risks to human health, it is associated with increased rates of lung cancer, emphysema, bronchitis and other respiratory infections. Due to their ongoing development, the risks to children are even more…Continue Reading Can air quality monitors protect children from air pollution on the school run?
Category: Environment and Sustainability
Environmental Human Rights
Dr Stephen Turner talks about the Standards in Environmental Rights Project….Continue Reading Environmental Human Rights
Marine plastics: Fragmentation, effectiveness and legitimacy in international lawmaking
Much of the plastic rubbish that is now found in our oceans comes from land‐based sources. From plastic bags, to toothbrushes and plastic nurdles, plastic enters the oceans through, for example, discharges or dumping in rivers, from waste dumped on land blowing into watercourses, and from landfill sites which have been built too close to…Continue Reading Marine plastics: Fragmentation, effectiveness and legitimacy in international lawmaking
A critique of the Global Pact for the environment: a stillborn initiative or the foundation for Lex Anthropocenae?
In May 2018, the process which may ultimately lead to the negotiation of a legally binding Global Pact for the environment formally commenced under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly. Expectations for the Pact are high, evidenced in particular by its multiple and overlapping objectives: to serve as…Continue Reading A critique of the Global Pact for the environment: a stillborn initiative or the foundation for Lex Anthropocenae?
Living in Harmony with Nature? A Critical Appraisal of the Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia
Juridical protection of the rights of nature is steadily emerging in several legal systems and in public discourse. Building on a recent publication in Transnational Environmental Law in which we interrogated Ecuador’s constitutional experiment with the rights of nature, we critically reflect in this contribution on Bolivia’s legal regime providing for the rights of Mother…Continue Reading Living in Harmony with Nature? A Critical Appraisal of the Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia
Sustainable Development Goals & the Law
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) first established in 2015 are a fundamental transformation in the international community’s commitment to global development. The SDGs, or “Global Goals” as they are more popularly known, promote a global vision of international development that is both socially and economically just whilst acknowledging environmental considerations. University of Lincoln,…Continue Reading Sustainable Development Goals & the Law