Abstract:
The 2013 Constitution has an environmental rights clause. The clause protects and promotes environmental rights as human rights and help in addressing the negative impacts of climate change. However, the realization and fulfilment of the environmental rights clause is dependent is dependent on the enactment of laws, adoption of policies and setting up of institutions. This chapter assesses the laws that have been enacted, the policies that have been adopted and the institutions that have been put in place by the Government of Zimbabwe since 2013 in support of the environmental rights clause and how these have helped in the protection and promotion of environmental rights as human rights and addressing the negative impacts of climate change.
