Evolution of Principle and Policy of

Environmental Law with special emphasis

on Judiciary
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to
the earth. - Marlee Matlin
INTRODUCTION
• The world health organization(WHO) has observed that over 70
percent of all human ailments are influenced by environment
deterioration.
• The industries are the sources of hazardous emissions and effluents.
The use of chemicals insecticides and pesticides in agriculture also
leaves dangerous residues. Transport, whether by land or water or air
contaminate the environment.
• Environmental pollution has become a major threat to human survival
and development, ‘environment law’ has emerged as one of the most
important tool for promoting development without destruction
EVOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENT ETHICS
• ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS IN OLDEN TIMES
• ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION IN MEDIVAL INDIA
• ENVIRONMENT DURING THE BRITISH RULE
• ENVIRONMENT POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION
• Major Organization for Formation of Policy
• The Ministry of Environment & Forests
• Pollution Control Board (CPCB),
• Major Policies to protect environment in India
• Environment Protection Act, 1986
• National Conservation Strategy and Policy Statement on
Environment and Development, 1992
• Policy Statement for the Abatement of Pollution, 1992
• National Environment Policy
• Vision Statement on Environment and Health
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
• The key environmental challenges that the country faces relate to the
nexus of environmental degradation with poverty in its many
dimensions and economic growth.
• The proximate drivers of environmental degradation are population
growth, inappropriate technology, and consumption choices, and
poverty, leading to changes in relations between people and ecosystem,
and development activities such as intensive agriculture, polluting
industry, and unplanned urbanization.
 ROLE OF JUDICIARY IN
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Principles and Doctrine propounded by Indian
Judiciary
• Principle of absolute liability
• Polluter pays principle
• Precautionary Principle
• Public Trust Doctrine
• Doctrine of Sustainable Development
• Doctrine of Inter-Generational Equity
ENVIRONMENT AND THE
RELIGIONS
MEERUT MAHAYAGYA ISSUE
Degradation of Indian Rivers from Religious Practice
• Social Awareness
• Population Control
• Strict Application of Environment Conservation Act
• Control over Industrial and Agricultural Pollution
• Afforestation Campaign
• Water Management and Management of Solid Waste
• Recycle What We Can, Whenever We Can
• Green Transportation
• On The Issue of Religion
CONCLUSION
• Preventing environmental degradation is a journey that we should all take part in.
• Keeping our forests and river alive are not only important to our ecosystem, but to
the wildlife system of the world as well, because it’s their home. When the food
chain is affected, we as humans are all affected.
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without
pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth,
but the planet can live without humans”.
-Evo Morales
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