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AMER ISHAQ vs PROVINCE OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA arts — 2024 PLD 1134 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation
2024 PLD 1134 SUPREME-COURT
Court
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year
2024
Reporter
PLD
Parties
AMER ISHAQ vs PROVINCE OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA arts

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Judgment text as reported

AMER ISHAQ VS PROVINCE OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA arts. 9, 23, 24 & 25---Right to life and property---Protection against discrimination---Environmental crisis---Islamic environmentalism---Human-induced climate change---Scope---Environmental crisis pervades our lives---Overwhelming scientific consensus warns that human-induced climate change is leading to rising sea levels, extreme weather events and public health disasters---Supreme Court pointed out that despite over thirty years of international agreements, global carbon dioxide emissions rose 70% between 1990 and 2020---Biodiversity was collapsing at an unprecedented rate---One million animal and plant species faced complete destruction within decades because of human activities---Notwithstanding extensive domestic regulation, global standards of air, land and water pollution remained stubbornly high---It is in this perspective of environmental constitutionalism that current issue and Islamic environmentalism that current issue was approached by the Supreme Court.

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