Abstract
The general purpose of regulating chemical and hazardous waste in international legal frameworks is to protect against life-threatening and adverse impacts on the environment during its generation and use at the domestic level and global transfer. Implementing these global regimes can be effective at the national level when the top leadership makes environmental protection a priority agenda in its policy and legislation, shifting from a traditional economic development attitude to harmonizing environmental, human rights, and economic growth needs. To this end, the joint plans and actions of institutions, which should be augmented by public involvement and judicial activism, play crucial roles. Mining companies should also be part of this cooperative framework, changing their enclave attitude and exclusionary approach. This paper analyzes the implementation of chemical- and hazardous-waste-based global regimes in Ethiopia by adopting a comparative method as a lesson from other jurisdictions. It argues that realizing multilateral agreements remains in the dock due to legal and practical gaps. The applicable domestic laws are flawed, exhibiting inconsistency, fragmentation, and inadequacy. Additionally, the state’s conduct does not balance its or investors’ economic interests with those of indigenous people, including their health, livelihood, and the environment. Thus, it recommends legal rectification and practical compliance with international law to realize the sustainable viability of human health and environmental media.
Highlights
It is well known that extractive businesses and commercial farming on land taken from collective communities negatively impact the latter’s health and the environment.Mining activities require the use of sustainable land and natural resources, among other investments in the land
It analyzes the integration of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in the domestic implementation of laws and their effectiveness in adequately safeguarding the health and the environment so that our contribution can help readers to understand the role of law in paralleling economic growth policy with human rights and environmental protection. It first overviews chemical and hazardous waste (CHW) pollution and its impacts on indigenous people and the ecological media using the same case, which was selected based on complaints from the general public and the assessment results of the on-site biophysical conditions as a sample
As sustainable use of CHWs has become critical to saving our world from recurring environmental pollution, To this end, International Environmental Law (IEL) instruments regulate different chemicals and hazardous wastes such as arsenic, cyanide, mercury, lead, etc., and their compounds
Summary
It is well known that extractive businesses and commercial farming on land taken from collective communities negatively impact the latter’s health and the environment. This article focuses on the pollution impacts on the land that was taken and utilized for investment by the MIDROC Laga-Dambi gold mine [3] It analyzes the integration of MEAs in the domestic implementation of laws and their effectiveness in adequately safeguarding the health and the environment so that our contribution can help readers to understand the role of law in paralleling economic growth policy with human rights and environmental protection. It first overviews chemical and hazardous waste (CHW) pollution and its impacts on indigenous people and the ecological media using the same case, which was selected based on complaints from the general public and the assessment results of the on-site biophysical conditions as a sample.
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