FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A RIGHT TO INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW?
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چکیده
Climate change is becoming ever more pertinent and its impact devastating. Issues such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, desertification are increasingly prevalent, leaving the present generation with numerous problems to contend with. But climate intensifies, those who will surely bear an even greater burden ones yet come. Unless some form equality established between generations, future generations likely find themselves in a precarious inhospitable environment. It argued that one way achieving intergenerational balance through right equity. This article analyses development progression principle equity international law. In doing so, interrogates sources environmental law well human rights determine whether exists. analysis finds no has arisen under Nonetheless, there seems be definitive trend toward realisation on stage. Until time equity, certain institutions mechanisms could implemented or relied upon safeguard interests generations.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pretoria student law review
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1998-0280']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29053/pslr.v15i1.3666