Is EU Law Conducive to the SDG 15?: Interests Reflected in the Legal Representation of the Sustainability Principle in the EU

Is EU Law Conducive to the SDG 15?: Interests Reflected in the Legal Representation of the Sustainability Principle in the EU

Antje Ilberg
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 33
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8903-1.ch003
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Abstract

Is EU law conducive to successful implementation of SDG 15? This chapter assesses the effectiveness of the legal representation of sustainability in EU biodiversity law and the foundation it establishes for ensuring biodiversity protection. It identifies the policy anchors that foster the human self-entitlement and the various forms of interest involved in the legal representation of the principle of sustainable development, and which impede the effectiveness of EU law intended to protect biodiversity. Advocacy is made to review the accurate transposition of the Brundtland report into legal principles and to incorporate the newly acknowledged human right to a clean environment in EU law, as a footing to facilitate effective biodiversity protection.
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Sustainable Development

The Rio Declaration was grounded in the landmark report of the Brundtland commission ‘Our Common Future’ (‘Brundtland Report’) from 1987, which was endorsed by the UN General Assembly in Resolution 42/187 (Figure 1). Through the Brundtland Report, the commonly applied definition of ‘sustainable development’ was born: ‘Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,” (UN, 1987). The Rio Declaration, which took up this definition is not legally binding, but handed over a significant foundation for EU environmental law.

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