Recently added articles from Georgetown International Environmental Law Review:
Genetic Use Restriction Technologies: Do the Potential Environmental Harms Outweigh the Economic Benefits?
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION For more than 10,000 years, agriculture has been big business.1 The agricultural revolution that started in Mesopotamia led to the development of society as it exists today.2 Development of agriculture led to food storage, allowing for diversification of jobs and increased ...
Narrowing the Accountability Gap: Toward a New Foreign Investor Accountability Mechanism
Jan 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION An ever-increasing number of standards, guidelines, principles, norms, and best practices (hereinafter "standards and norms") have been adopted to address the environmental and social impacts of multinational enterprises ("MNEs"). This increase in standards and norms ...
A New Call of the Wild: Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The Namibian government is currently addressing the twin goals of environment protection and rural economic development by means of an innovative policy of community-based natural resource management. This policy, implemented by a legislative amendment in 1996, is helping to ...
An Extinction Bar to Patentability
Jan 01, 2008; ... Biodiversity possesses significant economic value, not least as a source of natural biochemicals discovered through bioprospecting. However, human activities are currently destroying biodiversity at a rapid rate, along with a rich source of natural biochemicals. Stemming this destruction ...
Trashing the Solar System One Planet at a Time: Earth's Orbital Debris Problem
Oct 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Humans are littering outer space1 with debris at an astonishing rate. In just the first two months of 2007, the number of space objects orbiting the Earth increased by an estimated 32%.2 The orbit surrounding our planet is becoming the junkyard of the solar ...
The First Ecocentric Environmental War Crime: The Limits of Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute
Oct 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Consider the following scenario: State A is engaged in an international armed conflict with State B. In reprisal for the capture and execution of a popular general by the elite Tiger unit of State A, the commander of a special forces unit from State B orders his ...
Has India Addressed Its Farmers' Woes? A Story of Plant Protection Issues
Oct 01, 2007; ... At the time of independence, Winston Churchill referred to India as a mere "geographic expression."1 India's emergence as a strong economy is the result of rigorous planning to balance economic needs with social justice. From a country where everything "foren" was shunned, the Indian Yatra is ...
NAAEC Citizen Submissions Against Mexico: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of a Participatory Approach to Environmental Law Enforcement
Oct 01, 2007; ... With the recent free trade debate surrounding the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the time seems ripe to assess the effectiveness of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) at promoting environmental law enforcement in Mexico and improving Mexico's ...
Paper Battle on the River Uruguay: The International Dispute Surrounding the Construction of Pulp Mills
Oct 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This comment explores the legality of the Uruguayan government's decision to approve the construction of two pulp mill plants on the River Uruguay and examines the related litigation currently pending before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). A review of the international ...
Agriculture in the Developing World February 16, 2007: Keynote Address
Jul 01, 2007; ... Robert Rosing: Good afternoon everyone, my name is Robert Rosing, and I'm the editor-in-chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. I would like to welcome all of you and thank you for coming to our symposium, Agriculture in the Developing World. I would like first to tiiank ...
Searching for Human Rights to Water Amidst Corporate Privatization in India: Hindustan Coca-Cola Pvt. Ltd. v. Perumatty Grama Panchayat
Jul 01, 2007; ... The biosphere is a biosphere because it is a hydrosphere. The planet's hydrological cycle is a water democracy-a system of distributing water for all species-for the rain forest in the Amazon, the desert life in the Sahara. Nature does not distribute water uniformly. It distributes it equitably ....
Agriculture and the Environment: Linkages, Trade-Offs and Opportunities
Jul 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Many countries in the developing world face the challenge of simultaneously attaining the goals of long-run economic growth and environmental sustainability, especially in view of achieving poverty-reduction and long-term food security. The chance of achieving key ...
The Ongoing Debate Over Terminator Technology
Jul 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW This paper discusses efforts to commercialize sterile seed technology, a genetic use restriction technology ("GURT") dubbed "Terminator technology" in 1998 with the approval of U.S. patent 5,723,76s.1 Terminator technology, developed through a joint ...
Climbing the Mountain: Providing a Vehicle for Banking Services to Kenya's Rural Farmers
Jul 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction Mount Kilimanjaro, the subject of numerous short stories and novels, can be seen from the southern border of Kenya. Visitors to Kenya can view the mountain, but its majestic peak can only be reached by crossing the border into Tanzania. This summit is difficult to reach ...
Agriculture and the Developing World: Intensive Animal Production, a Growing Environmental Problem
Jul 01, 2007; ... With growing wealth comes a growing appetite for meat and other products of livestock. Meat is what economists call a luxury good; as people in developing countries improve their income, they want more of it. The world demand for meat and meat products comes, however, with unintended ...
Cross Compliance: The New Frontier in Granting Subsidies to the Agricultural Sector in the European Union
Jul 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction Presented by the Commission in a July 2002 Communication, then in the form of legislative proposals in January 2003,1 the most recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of 2003 was completed after 11 months of negotiations. It resulted in a compromise which, ...
Biomass Energy: Ensuring Sustainability Through Conditioned Economic Incentives
Jul 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Current strategies to minimize the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases focus on reducing emissions from developed countries. Long term strategies for addressing global warming, however, will need to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries, as ...
Advancing The Agricultural Trade Agenda: Beyond Subsidies
Jul 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction Since the end of the second World War almost sixty years ago, there has been an institutional multilateral effort to address the role that international trade could play in economic development. Those institutional efforts began as the General Agreement on Tariffs and ...
Genetically Modified Organisms and Justice: The International Environmental Justice Implications of Biotechnology
Jul 01, 2007; ... INTRODUCTION On September 29, 2006, a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel issued its final decision (the EC-Biotech decision) in the complaint brought by the United States, Canada, and Argentina against the European Communities (EC) over the EC's alleged moratorium on ...