Sentences with phrase «environmental safeguard requirements»
Some negative social and environmental impacts are prevented through legislation requiring environmental impact assessments from proponents of big projects as well as through social and environmental safeguard requirements of multilateral development financing institutions.
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SAFEGUARD fills a gap for communities, which are responsible for meeting the requirements of environmental laws passed by the legislature, such as AB 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, but may not know where to start or how to proceed.
But the Enbridge cases remind us that we also need a legislative scheme that ensures that Canadians have the ability to resort to the courts to seek judicial review of environmental assessment outcomes as a safeguard to ensure that statutory and constitutional requirements are being met.