Announcement Calenda 1176928
20 years after the two parliamentary assemblies definitively defined the contours of the Charter of the Environment, the sixty or so decisions handed down by the Constitutional Council and the hundreds of decisions taken by the administrative and judicial courts on the seven paragraphs and ten articles that make it up, once again call for an assessment of the environmental rights and duties it enshrines.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary is an opportunity to review the fate of a text whose destiny was uncertain.
Need we remind you that its birth gave rise to sharply contrasting reactions: some benevolent, when it came to recognizing that this text granted new rights or constituted an evolution, even a revolution, in French law; others dubious, when it came to claiming that it was merely a decoy, an avatar, a gadget, a Pandora's box.
Has the Environment Charter become the green hell that has undermined economic development and social progress, or the green paradise that enables France to respond to the ecological emergencies it now faces?
With a view to renewing the approach that animated us in 2015 on the occasion of the Charter's 10th anniversary, it seemed useful and fruitful to organize the debates around four new questions: What normative density? How attractive? What protection? What limits?
