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Artificial intelligence is giving rise to intense debates in the doctrine about its compatibility with the humanist ethics prevailing in Western society. This anthropocentric perspective of the paradigm shift posed by artificial intelligence does not, however, exhaust the line of pernicious consequences that may accompany it. Thus, the environment also emerges as a legal asset to be protected against the phenomenon of this new technology. The enormous amount of energy demanded by some of the artificial intelligence models erodes any energy efficiency objectives that may be set in the field of ICTs. For this reason, the aim of this paper will be to analyze this new challenge that environmental law will have to face sooner rather than later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to assess the nature of climate litigation at the international level and its role in sustainable development and nature conservation. Climate litigation has allowed claims to be made against governments regarding the climate crisis and companies, especially the largest generators of greenhouse gas emissions. They have also given way to the recognition of the impact and moral responsibility of companies and the lack of action by governments in the global environmental crisis, as well as highlighting the need for each country to establish regulations that promote truly sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper approaches environmental component from the perspective of the land management, departing from one of the fundamental aims that chases this public function: the management responsible for the natural resources and the protection of the environment. There is analyzed the development of this aim in the legislation on territorial arrangement of the Autonomous Communities, as well as the attention given to the environmental content on the part of the instruments of territorial planning, trying to synthesize a joint perspective of the autonomous scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish environmental taxes have been developed by Regions, in a prominent place to avoid waters pollution. From that point of view, the aim of this paper is to analyse the current environmental regional taxation legislation about water landfill taxes. To this end, we will examine, firstly, characteristic features of environmental regional taxation, focusing, then, in specific water landfill taxes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supreme Court has annulled by its Judgment of 8th June 2015 the pardon conceded by Government through Royal Decree 863/2013 to a businessman sentenced in 2011 to prison as author of a crime against territorial planning. Beyond the relevance of such a decision, which is not surprising as it derives from the previous jurisprudence, the case has the remarkable distinction of having been raised by an environmental association, whose controversial legal standing is supported by the innovative interpretation that High Court makes about the class action on environmental matters regulated by Law 27/2006 of 18th July. This paper studies the Judgment in question with an emphasis on new products involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The industrial age was characterized by the accumulation of the capital and of the physical property, on the other hand, in the new age post industrial or the third wave like her Alvin Toffler names (1979) the estimable thing they are the intangible forms of power that they present in packages of information and in intellectual assets, for what the physical character of the economy diminishes, dematerialization in a hyperconnected and intelligent world. During most of the history of the humanity, the pace of the innovations was slow, however, from the Second World War the use and development of the technology has experienced an exponential growth. The companies, the organizations and the individuals who have could integrate, adapt and use these new technologies are benefiting what such tools can achieve. The technological revolution must not be in itself an end, but a way. The benefits that's bringing the technology are great and very important, but there's no denying that new problems are emerging linked to technological development, and some of them with dangers and seriously harmful consequences for the man and his environment. Informatics and the industry in general haven't spared no effort to develop rapidly, but in most cases, at the expense of environmental degradation. Already in 1970 the Pope Paul VI referred to the ecological problematic in the speech before the FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, emphasizing that the most surprising scientific progresses and the most prodigious economic growth, if they aren't accompanied by an authentic social and moral progress, turn against the man. In equal sense, the Pope Juan Paul II (1979) in his first Encyclical, (Redemptor hominis) warned that the persons seem to perceive of the natural environment only what they serve to the ends of a use and consumption. However, the Technologies of Information and Communication (ICTs) can be an ally in the fight against climate change through processes called green technologies, which are part of the concept of green economy as context of sustainable development, according to the final document of Rio + 20. This paper will detail the incidence of informatics in the different areas and will describe in general terms, each of the methods and computer products ecological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand the interrelationships between the international environmental protection and the human rights protection systems, as well as the contributions of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to the strengthening of the civil and political rights protection in cases involving environmental issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]