Campaigning for environmental protection laws
- Protesting lack of environmental impact legislation
Description
Campaigning for environmental protection laws involves coordinated public advocacy to influence policymakers to enact, strengthen, or enforce legislation that safeguards natural resources and ecosystems. This strategy mobilizes citizens, organizations, and experts to raise awareness, present scientific evidence, and apply pressure through petitions, demonstrations, and media outreach. Its practical intent is to remedy environmental degradation, pollution, and biodiversity loss by securing legal frameworks that mandate sustainable practices and hold violators accountable.
Implementation
In 1993 a petition with more than 10,000 signatures was delivered to the Argentinian Congress in protest against the President's veto of the law which requires environmental impact assessments to be conducted on engineering project and public works.
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Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
- Societal problems » Protection
- Societal problems » Scarcity
- Law » Law
- Environment » Environment
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Language
English
1A4N
J0501
DOCID
12005010
D7NID
193899
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Last update
Dec 3, 2024