ID: 1752
Presenting Author: Ramzy Salih
Session: 539 - EIA Litigation Around the World
Status: pending
This paper presents a new approach that links assessment and enforceability through a duality between EDA and PEAA
The world environment is deteriorating rapidly, despite the development of environmental assessment tools more than 50 years. We find that the problems it faces are non-mandatory, as environmental impact assessment lacks strong enforcement, and we found that many environmental reports and agreements are only promises without mandatory provisions. This paper presents a new approach that links assessment and enforceability through a duality between:
1. Environmental Development Assessment (EDA): An assessment approach built on traditional environmental impact assessment approaches, addressing their weaknesses and adding behavioral risk analysis (BRA) using real and measurable metrics. It also adds the Environmental Development Assessment Database (EDIS), which is a database for regulating development.
2. Permanent Environmental Arbitration Agreement (PEAA): This is an international agreement with full powers to deal with environmental issues, serving as the legal arm of Environmental Development Assessment (EDA), considering environmental development assessment to be the cornerstone of environmental protection and the basis from which the agreement proceeds.
This paper demonstrates that the proposed approach does not seek to replace the existing system, but rather builds upon it and proceeds f rom it. The Permanent environmental arbitration agreement is nothing more than an embodiment of justice. This justice must be genuine and work to correct the relationship between the environment, development, and society.
The ultimate result is a transition from the global environm
Ramzy Ali Hamedd Mohammed Salih
An Independant EIA Researcher