Role of law to combat ecological imbalance in Nepal

Abstract

The government of Nepal has adopted and enacted Environment Protection Act, 2019 to enforce Article 30 of the Constitution of Nepal which guarantees a breath of fresh air to every citizen (not to every person). The act embodies environmental principles like sustainable development, environment impact assessment (EIA), or polluter pays principle (PPP) to foster purposive and progressive environmentalism. These green laws mandate that there should be developments but that development should be in the closest possible harmony with the environment. In this light, the article points out the compliance mechanisms, rights of the Centre and Provinces and other legal mandates provisioned to control and abate the acts and omissions that tend to degrade the quality of the environment