CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CONCEPT OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN LAW: A DEFINITIVE SYNTHESIS

Abstract

Climate Change is the pressing issue of the today’s world. Its effects are visible in the forms of the changing of the weather patterns and the rising of the global temperatures at unprecedented levels. Sea rising and the flooding in the urban centers is becoming more rampant in every corner of the world. In all states of world several legal instruments in the form of the environmental laws, constitutional provisions and environmental policies are enacted so as to stall and minimize the effects of this factor. The premise behind these legal endeavors is the protection of the environment for the persons living now and for the future generations as well. When the concern for the protection of environment for the future generation is taken into account this becomes the principle of intergenerational equity. All domestic and international agreements and binding legal documents endorse this concept. This research piece aims at digging into the evolution and conceptualization of this principle of environmental law in the domains of the international law and the European law. Thus, this research juxtaposes the two big systems of law so as to make this concept more elaborate to be understood and be established in the face of validity of the concern.