A Milestone in Environmental and Future Generations’ Rights Protection: Recent Legal Developments before the Colombian Supreme Court

Alvarado, Paola Andrea Acosta; Rivas-Ramírez, Daniel

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“…85–87). The recognition of a natural entity as a subject of rights often comes with the imposition of specific duties on states (and other actors), such as regulating the use of that natural entity's resources and adopting measures to give effect to that entity's rights and to protect it from degradation (Acosta Alvarado & Rivas‐Ramírez, 2018, pp. 521, 525; Andrea Lozano Barragán et al v Presidencia de la República, 2019; Centre for Social Justice Studies et al v Presidency of the Republic, 2016; Revisión de Sentencia de Acción de Protección Bosque Protector Los Cedros, 2021).…”

Section: The Scope Of Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Di...mentioning

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An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective

Dehbi

Martin‐Ortega

2023

Regulation & Governance

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Ten years since the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we have witnessed an increasing trend in Europe toward the adoption of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. Focusing on due diligence legislation from France, Germany, Norway, and the EU, this article examines the extent to which these laws are laying the foundations for the articulation of an integrated, comprehensive, and robust framework that effectively fosters corporate accountability through preventing, addressing, and remedying corporate‐related human rights and environmental harms. In this examination, we draw on international human rights and environmental standards and Third World Approaches to International Law, to identify the lessons learned from current approaches and that ought to be considered in future frameworks.

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An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective

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Martin‐Ortega

2023

Regulation & Governance

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“…Secondly, enabling planetary justice also requires integrating the cosmovisions and knowledge from the global South, especially those not written in English. For instance, Spanish-written literature, environmental activism, and court rulings produced in Latin America acknowledge that setting ecological constraints and planetary boundaries to unsustainable lifestyles (most of them taking place in the global North) is the only way to address inequalities within the anthroposphere (Alvarado et al, 2018;Estenssoro Saavedra and Vásquez Bustamante, 2017; Mexican Supreme Court of Justice, 2018a; Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Colombia, 2018;Svampa, 2019). Yet, English-written literature discussing the same topic does not acknowledge the above (Biermann and Kim, 2020;Saunders, 2015).…”

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De la Ciencia del Sistema Tierra al Derecho del Sistema Tierra: Permitiendo un Nuevo Paradigma Jurídico para el Antropoceno

López Porras,

Ciesielczuk

2024

Derecho Global

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La ciencia del sistema Tierra ha demostrado que las condiciones que permiten la vida en la Tierra dependen de su sistema interconectado, complejo y adaptativo, compuesto por procesos naturales, ciclos biogeoquímicos y flujos de energía. Aunque el futuro de la Tierra depende de mantener este sistema en un estado funcional y estable, hasta la fecha, el Derecho no logra protegerlo eficazmente. Recientemente se ha propuesto el derecho del sistema Tierra como un nuevo paradigma jurídico capaz de abarcar la complejidad y no linealidades subyacentes al funcionamiento del sistema Tierra. Al explorar los aspectos normativos del sistema Tierra, este documento propone un marco conceptual que integra tres aspectos para fortalecer el papel de la ley en la protección de dicho sistema: adaptación, regulación de sistemas y justicia planetaria. En última instancia, este artículo discute las implicaciones para el derecho del sistema Tierra de integrar la adaptación, la regulación de sistemas y la justicia planetaria y proteger las condiciones planetarias que sostienen todas las formas de vida.

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“…47 The CJEU ruled accordingly in Case C-363/18, 48 establishing that the EU is obliged to contribute "to the strict observance and development of international law" based on Article 3(5) TEU. 49 However, Bogojević 50 illustrates that the high-profile environmental lawsuits seen in other parts of the world, 51 in which minors take action against governments' climate failures on the basis of their own human rights and the rights of future generations, were largely absent in the EU by 2020. "As such, these cases are often framed as actions about intergenerational equity and our responsibilities towards future generations."…”

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The Law Is Elastic but Does Not Bend: A Literal Interpretation of European Union Chemical Legislation Could Leave Health and the Environment Unprotected

Ortega

2023

Eur. j. risk regul.

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This piece addresses Case C-458/19 P before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerning a substance of long-term exposure, namely bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). The case concerned the interplay of two complex procedures of European chemical law, namely: the procedure for authorising the use of a substance listed in Annex XIV of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH Regulation); and the procedure for listing a substance in Annex XIV of the REACH Regulation on the basis of its intrinsic properties as a substance of very high concern for the risks it poses, or may pose, to human and environmental health. The significance of this judgment is that it provides a better understanding of how Article 60(4) of the REACH Regulation is interpreted in an analogous manner in relation to other provisions of the same Regulation. Whether DEHP is a question of reproductive toxicity (Article 57(c) of the REACH Regulation) or endocrine-disrupting properties (Article 57(f) of the REACH Regulation), this judgment offers insights into the limits of the CJEU’s willingness and/or ability to use a teleological approach to interpret legislation in this area. Furthermore, this work supports the possibility of applying the principle of intergenerational equity to issues related to long-term exposure such as this one.

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A Milestone in Environmental and Future Generations’ Rights Protection: Recent Legal Developments before the Colombian Supreme Court

Cited by 14 publications

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An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective

An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective

De la Ciencia del Sistema Tierra al Derecho del Sistema Tierra: Permitiendo un Nuevo Paradigma Jurídico para el Antropoceno

The Law Is Elastic but Does Not Bend: A Literal Interpretation of European Union Chemical Legislation Could Leave Health and the Environment Unprotected

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