Harvard Anthropologist Lys Alcayna-Stevens will interview Professors Tongele Tongele, author of Slow Death of Planet Earth: Mindset and Technology Remedy and Professor Kennedy Kihangi Bindu on his recent book Trearty of the Right of the Environment: A Congolese Perspective. The central case that Professor Tongele argues is that "a new paradigm that focuses on empowering the local populations of Congo Basin and Amazonia who lived in and cared for rainforests for centuries, but are now fighting to survive the effects of deforestations and to preserve rainforests for future generations."

Professor Bindu notes that "Environmental law appears today as a compartment of legal science which has been greatly enriched and developed. since the middle of the 20th century, more particularly since the Stockholm Declaration of 1972. This dazzling ascent finds in part an explanation in the fact that this emerging branch of law has gradually revealed as a veritable crossroads of complexity, bringing together all spheres of law (public law - private law, international law - national law). One of the most beautiful illustrations of this phenomenon comes through clearly in the discussion of the regime's legal compensation for ecological damage, which is illustrated by a cross-reading between civil, criminal and administrative responsibilities.

 

The six chapters that make up this book (1st edition) are therefore not in reality only an attempt to restore this mosaic of principles

that have emerged from different sources of law (international treaties, custom, general principles, jurisprudence, doctrine, Constitution, laws, etc.) to finally constitute its foundations.