In order to protect clean water in the context of climate change, JAI recommends that governments (i) mobilize the public trust doctrine, (ii) guarantee the right of access to information through implementing effective and independent environmental impact studies; and (ii) recognize to right to water to be seen in conjunction with other rights, such as the right to life.
Read MoreThis statement focuses on the imminent climate breakdown and grave and irreparable injuries to the right to life that are the result of this breakdown; and the responsibility of China and the United States to prevent this breakdown.
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