From Dubai to Baku: Energy Justice at the COPs and the Question of Fossil Fuel Abandonment

The twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties (COP28), which took place in Dubai from 30 November to 13 December 2023, made a modest yet significant contribution to energy justice by expressing…

The Legal Analysis of Community Rights in Environment Decision-Making in the Federal Republic of Somalia

Introduction People often feel hopeless and powerless to protect the environment, themselves, their families and their individual rights. However, through the creative use of the law, a number of notable successes…

Dispute Settlement, Sustainable Development and AfCFTA: A Scoping Analysis

1.1 Introduction The African Union (AU)’s approval of Phase 2 of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) covering the protocols on investment, intellectual property and competition policy reinforces…

Single-Use Plastic Eradication: Are Women the Key?

Growing up in the Blantyre city of Malawi in the late 80s and early 90s, women/mothers were mainly concerned with child care and home management. The few that ventured into…

A Sure Bet to Overturn the Curse by Shaping Upstream Mining of Critical Minerals

Introduction Critical minerals are in particular demand for the transition to low-carbon and renewable energies to attain the goals of the Paris COP21 agreement. The energy transition is expected to…

Normative Frameworks for Regulating both the Phenomenon of Dumping of Goods in Africa and its Environmental Impacts

Introduction In 2006, a Dutch company arranged an agreement with an Ivorian businessman. The agreement stated that the dumping of waste was allowed at the Ivorian Coast because they claimed…

Taking Pride in Nature and the Environment from a Queer Perspective: The Protection Nexus

OPINION Jan Maina 8 July 2022 The month of June, where two journeys of a planetary crisis and human liberation take place. One is the Pride and the other one…