Rights-Based Approaches to Environmental Protection and Pandemic Prevention

IF 1.3 Q1 LAW Laws Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI:10.3390/laws12040066
J. Rudall
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This article reflects on the proposed pandemic treaty negotiations, the content of the recently published Zero Draft and its prospects for success in preventing future pandemics from emerging at all. It argues that, as presently conceived, the proposed instrument does little to address environmental damage as the primary driver of zoonotic spillover, nor does it make sufficient provision for the implementation and enforcement of legal obligations. In particular, the piece suggests that human rights and rights of nature can and should feature more prominently in efforts to fully realize the One Health agenda and strengthen environmental governance with a view to mitigating the risk of future pandemics. Experience from rights-based approaches in other contexts suggests that they offer a promising conduit for achieving genuine policy reform and accountability regarding environmental degradation. Indeed, human rights and rights of nature can play an important role in mitigating ecological destruction, biodiversity loss and, in turn, preventing disease transmission from the natural world.
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基于权利的环境保护和流行病预防方法
本文回顾了拟议的大流行病条约谈判、最近公布的零草案的内容及其在防止未来大流行病出现方面取得成功的前景。报告认为,按照目前的设想,拟议的文书几乎没有解决作为人畜共患病溢出的主要驱动因素的环境破坏问题,也没有为实施和执行法律义务作出充分的规定。这篇文章特别指出,人权和自然权利能够而且应该在充分实现“同一个健康”议程和加强环境治理以减轻未来大流行病风险的努力中占有更突出的地位。在其他情况下基于权利的办法的经验表明,它们为实现真正的环境退化政策改革和问责制提供了一个有希望的渠道。事实上,人权和自然权利可以在减轻生态破坏、生物多样性丧失以及反过来防止疾病从自然界传播方面发挥重要作用。
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