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Overhauling our Tax Regimes for a Sustainable Future
The 2022 Declaration should promote tax regimes based on an approach that looks to reestablish consu...
Should the 2022 Declaration recognize rights of nature?
The UN General Assembly has decided to organize an international conference in 2022 to celebrate the...
Why Include Animal Welfare in the 2022 Declaration?
Animal welfare is still missing at the UN and particularly in its Agenda for the Environment, even i...
Access to domestic courts to enhance environmental governance
The 2022 declaration should consider the multiplication of lawsuits brought by individuals, mainly r...
A Common Response to a Common Concern: Integrating Solidarity in Environmental Law
From the systemic perspective of international environmental law, two general principles of environm...
Principle 10: what can we learn from its regional implementation through the Escazú Agreement?
The Escazú Agreement implements Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, adapting it to the regional ci...
Enhancing International Rule of Law through a Global Pact for the Environment
Central to the states’ survival in the face of the accelerating climate crisis will be their enhan...
Addressing Inequality to Foster Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Environmental Regimes
The 2022 Declaration must integrate concerns related to inequality between people and between states...
Green Consumption Rights Should Be Incorporated Into International Law
The combination of little corporate green responsibility and insufficiently empowered citizens is ca...
What if the Global Pact for the Environment took the form of a simple declaration: a Trojan horse for better implementation of environmental standards?
Regardless of its legal form, it is the level of adherence of States to the norm that will ultimatel...
Towards more ambition for the 2022 High-Level Declaration
Law is a driving force that makes it possible to protect the environment while maintaining the econo...
A Fifty Year Stocktaking and Achieving Transformative Change through the Rule of Environmental Law
Transformation cannot be achieved without collective action. It is essential for States to take the ...