Chinese and foreign experts and scholars discuss "the protection and development of environmental rights"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 24 (Reporter Wei Mengjia) The 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council "Guarantee and Development of Environmental Rights" was held online on the 23rd. The meeting was hosted by the China Human Rights Research Association, hosted by the Renmin University of Human Rights Research and the School of Law of the Renmin University of China. Experts and scholars from universities and research institutions at home and abroad, focusing on the basic theory of environmental rights, environmental rights as constitutional rights, legislation and practice of environmental rights, environmental rights guarantee in the context of climate change, environmental rights in the context of environmental codes, etc. The topic starts discussions.

Huang Wenyi, Dean of the Law School of Renmin University of China, said that with the comprehensive development of my country's economic and social development, the emphasis on environmental rights has increased. As a new type of human rights, how to define the concept of environmental rights, how to express it in the constitutional law, and how to coordinate with other interests and other theoretical issues requires the foundation of the world.

Lu Zhongmei, Vice President of the Chinese Law Society and President of the Environmental Resources Law Research Association, said that at present, environmental rights have been fully reflected in human rights in Chinese policies, and environmental rights have a fully foundation. The compilation of an environmental code that reflects the characteristics of the times, practical characteristics and future orientation will provide a more fulfilling legal guarantee for the people's demand for environmental protection rights.

Wang Jianxue, a professor at the Law School of Tianjin University, believes that China's previous constitutional amendments have laid a standard foundation for fully guarantee environmental rights. Local experience in environmental rights and extraterritical experience are gradually absorbed by national laws and even constitutions. Based on this, it will form a more solid environmental rights guarantee mechanism. Qin Tianbao, a professor at Wuhan University Law School, introduced the legal path of environmental rights. He said that protecting the environmental rights of our citizens in accordance with the law is an important task of the development of human rights in my country. Under the new development pattern, China is integrating the people's demand for beautiful living environment and a better life into the entire process of legislation, administration, and justice.

Professor Sambin Schryk at the University of Gravswald University in Germany said that global environmental awareness has gradually increased since the 1970s, and environmental rights have gradually been incorporated by the constitution, relevant laws and regional international treaties of various countries. The national goal has a trend of basic rights. Professor Wang Lide, the University of California, Los Angeles, believes that carbon emissions transactions have the characteristics of easy management, construction and implementation, but there are also disadvantages that are difficult to design and political and economic factors that are difficult to design and political and economic factors.

At the seminar, domestic universities such as Renmin University of China, China University of Political Science and Law, Peking University, Tsinghua University, as well as legal experts from foreign universities and research institutions such as Waseda University in Japan, the University of California, Los Angeles, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, and Germany. It also shared the development of their respective countries on the theory of environmental rights and environmental legislation.

[Editor in charge: Wu Yongling]

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