Towards a Global Pact For The Environment

Abstract

On the occasion of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19th 2017, the French President Emmanuel Macron presented the draft of the Global Pact for Environment in front of Heads of States and Governments, representatives of the civil society and of the private sector, the 193 member states of the organization, in the presence of the UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres and of the President of the French Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius1. This pact, if adopted, will complement the legal building of the fundamental human rights norms created by Rene Cassin2, reinforced by Karel Vasak3 by creating the three generations of rights4. Each of these generations could now have its own Covenant. For the first two generations of rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were adopted in 1966. For the third generation, this new Global Pact will come to cover the most part of rights. It will be the one that will lead mankind to "act for the planet, to act by law”