Justice Surya Kant, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, has called for the Indian and Sri Lankan judiciaries to jointly champion a model of regional environmental constitutionalism – recognising that certain imminent environmental rights and duties transcend borders.

Justice Kant was delivering the keynote address at the Indo-Sri Lanka Policy Dialogue on Advancing Environmental Sustainability and Regional Cooperation, organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo.

He said sustained environmental cooperation also depends on informed citizen engagement.

Universities, legal institutes, and non-governmental organisations can function as transnational epistemic communities–generating data, influencing litigation, and cultivating ecological consciousness, Justice Kant added.

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