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A Compilation of Important Environmental Law Decisions
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2024
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Constitutions
Right to Healthy Environment
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Environmental courts
Polluter Pays Principle
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ...
Healthy Environment
2024
South Asia
India
Biodiversity
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Constitutions
Right to Healthy Environment
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Right to ...
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2024
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Access to Justice
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2023
South America
Guyana
Access to Information
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2022
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Climate Change
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2022
South America
Brazil
Climate Change
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Human Rights
2022
South Asia
India
Mining
Sand, gravel and aggregate mining
2021
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa
Access to Justice
SLAPP Suits
Slander/libel/defamation
Decision from the High Court of South Africa (Western Cape Division, Cape Town) asserting that "[c]orporations should not be allowed to weaponise our legal system against the ordinary citizen and activists in order to intimidate and silence them" and recognizing "the SLAPP suit defense."
2020
South Asia
Sri Lanka
Polluter Pays Principle
Protected Areas
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