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Export Processing Zone of Kenya & 10 Ors v The National Environment Management Authority & 6 Ors (Supreme Court of Kenya) (Petition E021 of 2023) [2024] KESC 75 (KLR)(6 December 2024)Supreme Court of Kenya
2024
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Courts Environmental courts
Polluter Pays Principle
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Natural barriers to natural disasters: Replanting mangroves after the tsunami
2006
Southeast Asia Thailand
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services
Environmental justice
Marine and Coastal Aquaculture Coastal zone management Mangroves
Pollution, Water
Public Participation
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Sustainable Development
Valuing Mangrove Conservation in Southern Thailand
2001
Southeast Asia Thailand
Economics Ecosystem Services Valuation methods
Financial Liability Natural resources damages
Marine and Coastal Aquaculture Mangroves
Public Participation
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Sustainable Development
Shrimp Aquaculture Development and the Environment: People, Mangroves and Fisheries on the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras
1996
Central America Honduras
Agriculture Agrochemicals
Economics Ecosystem Services
Environmental justice
Financial Liability Natural resources damages
Fisheries
Marine and Coastal Aquaculture Mangroves
Pollution, Water
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Held v. Montana, No. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. 1st Dist. Ct.) (14 Aug. 2023)
2023
North America United States of America
Climate Change Greenhouse gases Litigation
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment
Environmental Impact Assessment
Public Trust Doctrine
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Natur og Ungdom v. Norway, Court of Appeals judgment (23 January 2020) (People v. Arctic Oil Appeal decision)
2020
Western Europe Norway
Climate Change
Constitutions
Oil & Gas Offshore oil & gas
Right to ... Healthy Environment
ELAW and CIEL Amicus Brief submitted in Juliana vs. United States
2019
North America United States of America
Climate Change Greenhouse gases Litigation
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Mohamed Ali Baadi and Others v. Attorney General, High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (No. 22 of 2012) (April 2018)
2018
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Economics
Environmental Impact Assessment Cumulative Impacts Enforcement Public participation
Marine and Coastal
Protected Areas World Heritage Sites
Public Participation
Right to ... Healthy Environment
The High Court of Kenya remanded the environmental license issued for a port project for reconsideration and directed the project proponent to pay Kshs. 1.7 billion in compensation to affected fishing communities who will be impacted by the project. During the reconsideration process, decisionmakers must evaluate the external costs of the port project on the environment and local communities.
In re Application of Maui Electric Company, Case No. SCWC-15-0000640 (Dec. 14, 2017)
2017
North America United States of America
Access to Justice
Energy Coal and gas power plants
Right to ... Healthy Environment
An environmental organization has constitutional right to intervene in public utility proceeding concerning a power purchase agreement. The right to a clean and healthful environment guaranteed by the Hawaiian constitution is a property right that is protected by due process and the utility commission must consider impacts to that right in determining whether to approve a power purchase agreement.
Alberto Castilla c/ Estado de Colombia
2016
South America Colombia
Land Rights
Mining
Oil & Gas
Protected Areas
Right to ... Healthy Environment Water
The government of Colombia has a constitutional duty to protect high elevation wetlands that are an important source of fresh water to communities and provide other valuable environmental services.

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