The Legal Basis for Environment Protection at the National Level

Abstract

Environment has been liable to pollution risk for the industrial revolution. The Significance of environment began through making laws impliedly which could be educed via text inner related to economic and social rights. But after Stockholm Conference, most states managed to include environment protection in their laws and issued legislations including Iraq. Via analyzing the legal texts we may conclude that most states adopted the protection of environment in their new constitutions. But this protection is still unable to cope with pollution risk. According to the aforementioned, we suggest amendment of Iraqi constitution 2005 to make a state and citizens responsible for protecting environment in addition to the amendment of environment protection and enhancement law as to accord with the risk of environment pollution risk.