Filling in the Gaps: Strengthening Environmental Tort Law in the PhilippinesLi, Gilyen Ezra Marie L.Ateneo Law Journal
The Republic of the Philippines is one of most exposed countries in the world to many “natural” hazards: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, lahar flows, typhoons, flooding, landslides, and sea level rise. Earthquake risks make Metro Manila especially vulnerable, due to the high population...
The domestic waste of disposable facemasks may also cause long-term impacts. The greatest factor that contributes to the facemask waste issue during the Covid-19 pandemic is the grey-zone categorization of the facemask waste, causing policy confusion in managing that waste. However, there has n...
International environmental law is rightly perceived as one of the most challenging fields for the secondary rules governing State responsibility. In particular, the conditions for establishing how the critical obligation of States to prevent environmental harm has been breached remain rather obscure. The ...
environmental law and practice. Recognize noteworthy aspects of specific environmental-related legislation in Congress, developments at the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Interior (DOI), and selected cases. Employ varied types of resources to learn more and stay up-to-date with key ...
in many cases have already begun to incorporate – built structures into coral reef-related applications, yet synthesized evidence on the ecological (coral-related; e.g., coral growth, coral survival) and physical performance of built structures in coral ecosystems across a variety of contexts (e...
” Liberal environmental provisions also include clauses that promote international standards, harmonize domestic measures and indicate the prevalence of trade in cases of inconsistencies with other issue areas. Liberal environmental provisions that promote economic openness can facilitate the diffusion of ...
(Supplementary Fig.1a). This spatial bias therefore depends on the size of the bandwidth\(b\), because if\(b\)is too large, included specimens no longer follow the statistical law at the given location\(x\); however, if\(b\)is too small, local variance becomes too high because of a...
Enforcement measures such as infringement notices, fines, revocations of licenses, and suspension of businesses have been applied to greenwashing cases. Civil or criminal liability can also be applicable depending on the severity of the particular case. ...
metabolizable by certain microorganisms. However, the microbial degradation of most plastics is restricted to only a few taxa [28], remains slow, and in many cases is unproven or disputed. Indeed, there remains a paucity of evidence for the microbial degradation of dominant plastic polymers, ...