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(JULY) International Environmental Laws in Nigeria |
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by Alesandra Ibobo | 15-08-2018 23:34
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Nigeria signed some bilateral agreement which deals directly or indirectly with environmental matters. The international environmental laws are party to: biodiversity, climate change, desertification, endangered species, hazardous wastes, law of the sea, marine, dumping, marine life conservation, ozone layer protection, wetlands and other forms of pollution. INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES (IUCN) GUIDELINES 1996. The world conservation union statutes have undergone several amendment from 1948 to the recent amendment of 2015. It provides the list of threatened animals & categorized them based on the relative risk of extinction; in addition, list of species that cannot be assessed due to insufficient data. This system is designed to determine relative risk of extinction and the main purpose of the list is to catalogue the species that are regarded as threatened at the global level, that is, at risk of overall extinction. It recognizes principally, that conservation of nature and natural resources involves the preparation and management of the living world, the natural environment of humanity, and the earth's renewable natural resources on which rest the foundation of human civilization. CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF MIGRATING SPECIES OF WILD ANIMALS (Bonn convention, 1979). This convention was adopted in 1979 and entered into force on November 1, 1983. It is also known as the Bonn Convention, it recognizes that states must be the protector of migratory species that live within or pass through their national jurisdictions, and aims to conserve terrestrial, marine and Arian migratory species throughout their ranges. It is concerned with the promotion of measures for the conservation and management of migrating species. Migratory species are vulnerable to a wide range of threats, including habitat shrinkage in breeding areas, excessive hunting along migration routes and degradation of their feeding grounds. CONVENTION ON BIOLOGY DIVERSITY (1992) States have, in accordance with the charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment to other states or of areas beyond the limits of natural jurisdiction. To this end, their objectives of this convention, are to be pursued in accordance with its relevant provisions. They include the conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. Further to this, is an appropriate access o genetic resources on through proper transfer of relevant technologies using an appropriate funding approach. CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL JERITAGE SITES (or world heritage convention, 1978). This convention set aside areas of cultural and natural heritage for protection. These are areas with outstanding universal value from the aesthetic, scientific and conservation point of view. BASEL CONVENTION ON THE CONTROL OF TRANS-BOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF HAZARDOUS WASTES AND THEIR DISPOSAL (1987). It came into force in Nigeria I. 1989. This convention defines wastes that must be regulated and controlled in its trans-boundary movement, to protect human and environmental health against their harmful effects. It was to protect by strict legal control, human health and environment against adverse effect, which may result from generation and management of hazardous waste. One of the interesting attributes of this convention is that if wastes are smuggled into the territory of one state without the competent authority?s consent, such waste can be returned back to the country.
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4 Comments
Hello Alesandra, laws are very complex and it is true that it cannot cover up all the flaws and missing points throughout our lives and living. However, there it needs specific and firm standard of our social values to keep this society longer and better in different terms.
Thanks for providing the list of environmental laws in Nigeria, and it was such a good opportunity for me to learn of them!
Posted 18-08-2018 21:10
Hello Alesandra
Good laws provide us with a well-directed path to improvement. However, to actually walk down this path to reach a better society could only be done with continuous effort. Also, monitoring should be done to keep track of whether stakeholders are behaving by the rules!
Thanks for the detailed report, it was most informative :)
Posted 17-08-2018 20:54
Thanks
Posted 17-08-2018 15:37
Great report Alesandra. Thanks for the insight into the environmental laws in Nigeria.
Posted 16-08-2018 02:56