A Review of the 2013 Constitutional Environmental Rights Clause, Policy Developments and Judgements for the Protection of the Environment

Chikurira Alpha, Dhliwayo  Mutuso

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dc.contributor.author	Chikurira Alpha, Dhliwayo Mutuso
dc.date.accessioned	2023-10-19T13:51:00Z
dc.date.available	2023-10-19T13:51:00Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier.issn	978-91-86910-66-2
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2174
dc.description	Research Paper	en_US
dc.description.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.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Final Papers of the 2022 National Symposium on Ten Years of the Declaration of Rights in the Zimbabwean Constitution;
dc.subject	Environmentalal Law, Zimbabwe 2013 Constitution, e Environmental Management Ac, Environmental Policy, Climate Policy, Renewable Energy, Wetlands Policy, Climate and Tourism, Sustainable Development, Environmental Protection, Policy Reforms.	en_US
dc.title	A Review of the 2013 Constitutional Environmental Rights Clause, Policy Developments and Judgements for the Protection of the Environment	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US