Arguing Global Environmental Constitutionalism

Abstract

The current global environmental law and governance regime has been designed primarily to attend to the worsening ecological crisis. Evidence, however, suggests that the regime is far from achieving its goal and it is failing in its efforts to solve what people perceive to be pervasive global environmental problems. There is little doubt that this regime is in need of urgent reforms and/ or re-situation in a decidedly different paradigm. This article proposes that global constitutionalism, while no panacea, could contribute to these paradigm-shifting reforms by providing a new perspective through which to view the current deficient global environmental law and governance regime and, in real terms, ameliorating some of the deficiencies of the regime through a normative process of constitutionalization.

Achieving Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental Lessons for Malaysia

“…151 The principle of sustainable development though embedded within the constitution as well, has been argued to have "little practical effect". 152 Alternatively, should environmental rights be constitutionalised? Environmental protection could just as easily be provided for legislatively or via governmental policies and practices.…”

Os Ciclos Do Constitucionalismo Ecológico

“…O próprio Boyd, citado no texto, afirmou também em 2015 que, em, pelo menos, 110 países garantiam, em suas Constituições, a proteção ambiental (2015b). 2 Essa expressão pode apresentar, pelo menos, quatro sentidos: um, mais empregado no texto, refere-se ao movimento expansivo do tema para os textos constitucionais em diversos países; outro, a mencionar um "constitucionalismo global para além do Estado", a estabelecer instituições e normas transnacionais de governança ambiental (GAREAU, 2013;KOTZÉ, 2012;KYSAR, 2012;BODANSKY, 2009;PALMER, 1992). Um terceiro, a indicar a emergência de normas ambientais internacionais que assumem um caráter de fundamentalidade capaz de influenciar os ordenamentos jurídicos internos (ARAGÃO, 2014, p. 18).…”