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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… concern of humankind, and that it differentiates the substance of this obligation based on the particular … the municipality supplied nearby areas with water from alternative, non-contaminated sources, but after it … was reduced to a lawful level, it stopped providing alternative water. After the incident, the company tried to …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… procedures had been followed; the challenge was to the substance of the decision taken. Applicants litigated the … of the short-term monetary costs and benefits of alternative policy choices. Decisions can be improved if they are informed by the total economic value of alternative management options and involve deliberative …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… of the reasonable alternatives, including a no-action alternative; information on the environment likely to be significantly affected and alternative sites; potential conservation or environmental … goal. Guiding questions here might include: – What actions/alternative strategies can the proponent use to avoid or at …
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper
… services are destroyed or interrupted and there are no alternative options. Because on-site treatment of sewerage is … and “clean coal” projects are intended to generate alternative cleaner sources of energy than fossil fuels. …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… promoted with the place independent mobile response alternative, Harava enquiries have reached increased response … the length of proceedings and recommended that the use of alternative dispute mechanisms like environmental mediation. … right in terms of an ecologically balanced environment; alternative formulations include rights to a clean, safe, …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… any reform proposals, and may in fact point to important alternative proposals for local-level conflict resolu- tion … formulates 26 principles and the first principle gives the substance of the other principles: “Man has the fundamental … and institutional reform can, to some extent, be seen as alternative approaches to the environmental problem, there is …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… without providing a viable, sustainable and better alternative, would be considered a failure to respect their … avoided where feasible, or minimized, exploring all viable alternative project designs. (b) Where it is not feasible to … livelihoods, the Bank requires the borrower to explore alternative project designs to avoid physical relocation of …