Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation: Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions(Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development)

Economic, technological, social and environmental transformations are affecting all humanity, and decisions taken today will impact the quality of life for all future generations. This volume surveys current commitments to sustainable development, analysing innovative policies, practices and procedures to promote respect for intergenerational justice. Expert contributors provide serious scholarly and practical discussions of the theoretical, institutional, and legal considerations inherent in intergenerational justice at local, national, regional and global scales. They investigate treaty commitments related to intergenerational equity, explore linkages between regimes, and offer insights from diverse experiences of national future generations' institutions. This volume should be read by lawyers, academics, policy-makers, business and civil society leaders interested in the economy, society, the environment, sustainable development, climate change, and other law, policy and practices impacting all generations.

Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The theoretical framework for international legal principles of intergenerational equity and implementation through national institutions; Part I. Introduction to Treaty Law on Intergenerational Justice and Codifying Sustainability: 3. International treaty law and policy for future generations; 4. Intergenerational justice under international treaty law: the obligations of the state to future generations; 5. The use of international human rights norms to implement international solidarity; Part II. Key Challenges in Domestic Implementation of Intergenerational Justice: 6. Future generations as a counterweight; 7. Future generations institutions to implement international obligations towards future generations; Part III. Law and Policy Innovations for Inter-Generational Justice: 8. Sustainability in European constitutional; 9. The principle of intergenerational solidarity in reshaping constitutional rights and obligations: an example from Portugal; 10. Time to think: sustainable development, future generations and the individual; 11. Claims and petitions regarding environment preservation for future generations; 12. Reasons and means of public participation; 13. Giving the voice of the future a word in the present; 14. Unsustainability as an economic problem; 15. Intergenerational equity and the European constitution; 16. Scientific uncertainty as a key obstacle to efficient legal protection of the environmental interests of future generations; 17. Transformative knowledge and solutions in sustainability governance; Part IV. Implementing Sustainability through National Institutions – Case Studies: 18. Institutions for a sustainable future: the former Israeli commission for future generations; 19. Norway – Norwegian ombudsman for children; 20. Institutions for a sustainable future: the german parliamentary advisory council on sustainable development; 21. Power over coming generations – committee for the future in the eduskunta, the parliament of Finland; 22. Welsh commissioner for sustainable futures; 23. Parliamentary commissioner for the environment, New Zealand; 24. Canadian commissioner of the environment and sustainable development; 25. Intergenerational justice in colombian governance & peace accords; 26. Indigenous peoples and inter-generational equity in Mexico; 27. Legal innovations for inter-generational justice in sustainable landscapes management of democratic republic of Congo; 28. Local indigenous planning instruments for intergenerational equity in ahousaht traditional territories of Canada; 29. A comparative analysis of model institutisons: diversity in reaching common goals; 30. Comparing progress in inter-generational governance; 31. International institutions for future generations and democratic legitimacy; Part V. Regional Trends in Intergenerational Justice: 32. A European human rights perspective on national sustainable development institutions; 33. Embedding intergenerational justice across government: regional trends in Africa; 34. Intergenerational equity, justice, and modern treaties between first nations communities and Canada; 35. Institutions for future generations in Asia; Part VI. Future Trends: 36. Equity across generations in implementing international law on water; 37. Intergenerational justice in the Paris agreement on climate change; 38. The four-branches model of government – representing future generations; 39. Intergenerational equity in sustainable development treaty implementation.

About the Author :
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, Full Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Executive Secretary to the Climate Law and Governance Initiative, a UNFCCC partnership supporting implementation of the Paris Agreement. She serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Chair of the Future Board for Bit Bio, on the Board of the International Law Association, as a Law Fellow and DoS for Lucy Cavendish College, a founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG) and affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) in Cambridge. Author or editor of over twenty books and 120 papers, she edits the Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development series for Cambridge University Press and serves on the editorial boards of several law journals, also advising countries and international organisation on treaty commitments on climate change, biodiversity, trade, investment and other Sustainable Development Goals. Marcel Szabó is Full Professor and Head of the Department of European Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest). Besides his academic career, between 2011-2012 Professor Szabó represented the Hungarian Government in front of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, between 2012-2016 ha was the Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary. Professor Szabó was elected as justice at the Constitutional Court of Hungary in 2016, for twelve years. He is Founder and Honorary Chair of the Network of Institutions of Future Generations. His main areas of research are international environmental law, rights of future generations, responsibility of states in public international law, and public international law and EU-law in the case-law of the Constitutional Court of Hungary. Professor Szabó is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law. Alexandra R. Harrington is Research Director and Lead Counsel (Peace, Justice and Governance) with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. She serves as the Director of Studies for ILA Colombia, a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and Visiting Professor at Albany Law School. Dr Harrington is the author of International Organizations and the Law and the forthcoming International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Interpretation as well as dozens of articles and book chapters.