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Justice Nagarathna Calls Environmental Protection A Matter Of Global Regulation
Justice B V Nagarathna said environmental problems can spread across borders.
Pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss do not stay inside one country.
She said countries should consider how their actions affect people and nature elsewhere.
Courts must sometimes act before environmental damage is complete.
This can be difficult because scientists may not yet know everything about a risk.
The judge said environmental decisions should balance development with protecting nature.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta also called for balance between climate action, renewable energy, biodiversity, and development.
Justice Nagarathna said nature should not always be treated as less important than human interests.
Justice B V Nagarathna said environmental harms increasingly cross national and regional boundaries.
She called for legal standards that can respond to changing ecological risks and new scientific information.
The judge said courts must address unfolding risks, including those involving scientific uncertainty and potentially irreversible damage.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said environmental law must balance biodiversity protection, climate action, renewable energy, and development.
Justice Nagarathna said the Supreme Court is encouraging a shift from human-centered to ecocentric environmental decision-making.
- Who
- Justice B V Nagarathna, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, and other officials and judges attending the conference.
- What
- Speakers discussed evolving environmental law, cross-border ecological harms, and the need to balance development with conservation.
- Where
- At Vigyan Bhawan in the national capital, India.
- When
- During the valedictory session of the international environment and climate conference; no date was specified.
- Why
- Because environmental crises increasingly cross territorial boundaries and require legal systems to address future and uncertain risks.
Key facts
- Event
- International Conference on “The Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics”
- Organizer
- National Green Tribunal
- Speaker
- Justice B V Nagarathna of the Supreme Court of India
- Key concern
- Transboundary pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, and degradation of shared ecosystems
- Legal approach
- Responsive standards, foresight, enforcement, transparency, accountability, and access to justice
- Environmental balance
- Development and conservation, renewable energy and fragile ecosystems, and present and future interests
- Judicial shift
- From an anthropocentric approach toward an ecocentric approach
Quotes
Justice B V Nagarathna
Justice of the Supreme Court of India
“In today’s world, we increasingly face transboundary environmental crises. Pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss and the degradation of our shared ecosystems do not respect territorial boundaries. Harm originating in one jurisdiction is often experienced beyond it. This makes environmental protection a matter of global regulation, requiring States to account for the consequences of their actions beyond their own territorial limits.”
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“The lesson is clear. The environmental law must seek balance. We must protect biodiversity while addressing climate change, promote renewable energy while safeguarding fragile ecosystems, and pursue development while ensuring environmental responsibility.”
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