The Right To A Clean Environment As A Jus Cogens Norm
IJLLR Journal
C. Vignesh, LL.M., University of Madras ABSTRACT This paper argues that the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment has attained, or is rapidly crystallizing into, the status of a peremptory norm (jus cogens) under general international law. Drawing on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), the International Law Commission's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (2022), United Nations General Assembly Resolution 76/300 (2022), and the...