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The Global Pact for the Environment

The 2017 UN "GLOBAL PACT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT" is to form the basis for world wide Environmental Enforceable Legislation and be an extension of the Sustainable Development Goals / 17#GlobalGoals. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, only mentions "better standards of life in larger freedom" in its Preamble and "Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."

On June 24, 2017, the Pact project was introduced by the Club des juristes in the Grand Amphithéâtre of the Sorbonne, with many personalities committed to the protection of the planet, including Laurent Fabius, Ban Ki-moon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mary Robinson, Anne Hidalgo, Laurence Tubiana, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal and Nicolas Hulot.

Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, committed on this occasion to introducing the Global Pact for the Environment project to the United Nations General Assembly. The project was presented to the UN on September 2017.

The pact holds a preamble and following articles:

Article 1 Right to an ecologically sound environment;

Article 2 Duty to take care of the environment;

Article 3 Integration and sustainable development;

Article 4 Intergenerational Equity;

Article 5 Prevention;

Article 6 Precaution;

Article 7 Environmental Damages;

Article 8 Polluter-Pays;

Article 9 Access to information;

Article 10 Public participation;

Article 11 Access to environmental justice;

Article 12 Education and training;

Article 13 Research and innovation;

Article 14 Role of non-State actors and subnational entities;

Article 15 Effectiveness of environmental norms;

Article 16 Resilience;

Article 17 Non-regression;

Article 18 Cooperation;

Article 19 Armed conflicts;

Article 20 Diversity of national situations;

Article 21 Monitoring of the implementation of the Pact;

Article 22 Secretariat;

Article 23 Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval, accession;

Article 24 Coming into force;

Article 25 Denunciation;

Article 26 Depositary;

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE GROUP OF EXPERTS FOR THE PACT (GEP);

More: http://pactenvironment.org

External links

• http://pactenvironment.org