Non-regression in environmental law
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Would it appear that we have entered an era of law that refuses established rights in the name of sovereignty of laws and Parliaments — “what a law can do can be undone by another law”? Is this not in contradiction with the rights of future generations, the paradigm of sustainable development proclaimed by States in Rio in 1992 and reaffirmed in Rio twenty years later?The environment is a value-policy and an ethic (or a “moral of the environment”, as said by French President Pompidou in 1970...
Author: Michel Prieur
Institution: Université de Limoges
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2103933453