What is it about?
This article on the Philippines focused on the challenges and opportunities in environmental litigation. It provided key features of the country's Rules of Procedure on Environmental Cases and a review of some environmental cases. The rules are opportunities for environmental litigation, but there are challenges in building up the evidence, getting scientific experts and broadening awareness among citizens on such rules, and how these can be maximized to protect the community's environmental rights and natural resources.
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Why is it important?
Given the increasing environmental threats to the Philippines' biodiversity, community rights and natural resources, it is worthwhile to show the opportunities provided by the Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases. Citizen suits, the use of special writs and environmental protection orders, precautionary principles and strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) are some of the important features of the rules.
Perspectives
For many citizens around the world who would like to pursue environmental litigation in order their right to a healthy environment, a review of the Philippines' Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases and current jurisprudence will provide them with insights.
Grizelda Anda
Environmental Legal Assistance Center, Inc. (ELAC)
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This page is a summary of: Environmental Courts and Tribunals in the Philippines, October 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004695863_004.
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