The New Global Pact for the Environment

• Author: Elena Loredana Pirvu
• Pages: 5-17

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Studies and Articles

Elena Loredana PÎRVU 1

Abstract:On19 September 2017, the UN General Assembly in New York informed everyone that it

was to present the project of a Global Pact for the Environment, before the Heads of State and

Governments, representatives of civil society, the private sector, etc. of the 193 Member States of the

organisation, in the presence ofUN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres, President of the French

Constitutional Council Laurent Fabius2, and French President Emmanuel Macron. If adopted, this pact

(Moroianu Zlătescu, 2017) comes tocomplement the legal edifice of fundamental human rights norms,

created by René Cassin3, consolidated by Karel Vasak4 by creating the three generations of rights5, each

of them having thus its own pact. (First generation, civil and political rights, second generation,

economic, social and cultural rights, third generation, right to peace, development and the

environment).

Keywords: rights; Global Pact; Environment; international treaty

1 Associate Professor, PhD, Police Academy Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania, Address: Aleea

Privighetorilor no. 1-3, Bucharest, Romania, Tel.: 0213175523, int. 17311, Corresponding author:

loredana.pirvu@yahoo.com.

2 Former Prime Minister of France and Paris Agreement/COP21 President.

3 First laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, main author of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human

Rights.

4 PhD professor Karel Vasak, legal advisor t o the Council of Europe (1969-1976). He edited Les

dimensions internationales des droits de l’homme (1978) and co-edited Les dimensions universelles de

droits de l’homme, (1990), both published under the aegis of UNESCO.

5 The classification of human rights into the three generation was first proposed in 1977-1979, when

Karel Vasak was first Secretary-General of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

He was also Director of the Division of Human Rights and Peace of UNESCO, and later on, Legal

Advisor to UNESCO and the World Tourism Organization. First generation, civil and political rights,

second generation, economic, social and cultural rights, third generation, right to peace, development

and the environment.

AUDJ, Vol. 15, No. 1/2019, pp. 5-17

The New Global Pact for the Environment