4.2 The Constitutional Framework

The 2015 Constitution's environmental architecture (the verified articles): Article 30 (the right to a clean environment): 30(1) the right to live in a clean-and-healthy environment; 30(2) the environment-and-development balance clause; 30(3) the compensation right for the harm from environmental pollution-and-degradation — the justiciable environmental right's full design; The rights' neighbours: Article 35 (the health — the environment-health nexus), Article 36 (the food-and-food-sovereignty — the climate's agricultural anchor), Article 32 (the cultural practice — the sacred sites), Article 44 (the consumer protection); The directive principles (Article 51(g)) — the environmental policies' state duty (the climate-case's base — Unit 6.3); Article 48's citizen duty (the environment's protection face); The federal lists (the forests-and-environment's concurrent faces; the local environment's local- list entry — the LGOA's base).