Courts are crucial in enforcing green laws: NGT chief – Times of India

BAKU: Chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). Justice Prakash Shrivastava has emphasized the role of the judiciary in the implementation and enforcement of forest laws, noting that judicial mechanisms are crucial in holding governments and industries accountable for their environmental obligationsensuring compliance with international agreements and promoting a culture of sustainability.
He was speaking here on the sidelines of CO on Friday about the Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI) to develop such a law as a systematic way to provide expertise, efficiency and scale needed to tackle the severity of the global forest crisis be able to. He also took part in a global dialogue between judges on pollution, nature and water in the context of climate change and addressed a meeting on Saturday.
Calling for greater cooperation between domestic courts and international legal frameworks to address the interrelated challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, Justice Shrivastava said: “I urge everyone to recognize the power of the judiciary to to take the lead and play an effective role in nature conservation. forests”. He cited numerous examples from India where NGT and the Supreme Court of the country intervened for better implementation of existing laws and identified gaps and got them filled by issuing directives or directives.
The panel he spoke to on Friday included Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla, judge of the Supreme Court of Nepal; Judge Luc Lavrysen, President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium and President of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment; and Judge Elisa Samuel Boerekamp, ​​Director General of the Center for Judicial and Legal Training of Mozambique.