WCEL Hosts Webinar on Bras铆lia Declaration of Judges on Water Justice
On Friday, 17 July 2020, WCEL hosted the fifth event in the WCEL Webinar Series "Judges as Guardians of Water Resources: The Bras铆lia Declaration of Judges on Water Justice".
In 2018, the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) and partners convened the Conference of Judges and Prosecutors on Water Justice at the held in Bras铆lia, Brazil. Over 140 distinguished participants from more than 60 countries engaged in high-level discussions on the management, use, and protection of freshwater resources, which culminated in the Bras铆lia Declaration of Judges on Water Justice. The Bras铆lia Declaration provides a set of ten principles that aim to familiarize judges with water-systemic and wider eco-systemic dimension and ramifications of their function as they adjudicate civil, criminal, or administrative cases.
The Webinar was moderated by Stefano Burchi, the Chair of the WCEL Water and Wetlands Specialist Group. The global panel included:
- Brian J. Preston,聽Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales,聽Principles of enviornmental stewardship, prevention and precaution, and environmental governance
- Oscar Angote, Justice, Environment and Land Court at Machakos,聽The Application of the the Brasilia Declaration in Kenya
- Mar铆a del Pilar Garc铆a,聽Director of the Department of Environmental Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia,聽River Rights in colombia as a Debatable form of Water Justice
- 惭颈肠丑补别濒听贬补苍迟办别听顿辞尘补蝉,聽Former Justice, Third Environmental Court of Chile,聽A Legal Understanding of the Connection between Water and the Environment
The Webinar Panelists each illustrated the value of particular principles of the Bras铆lia Declaration in the context of specific cases in their courts and countries. The Webinar聽highlighted the emerging role of judges as the guardians of the planet鈥檚 stressed freshwater resources, and the inspirational value of the principles of the Bras铆lia Declaration.
A full recording of the Webinar is available .听