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" 305 THIRD GENERATION RIGHTS GREEN RIGHTS Qaisar Zaman Advocate, Lahore   Published in: Corporate Law Decisions Year of Publication: 2011 Suggested Citation: 2011 CLD Journal Section p.43 A clear-cut and authoritative definition for the term environmental rights does not exist. Birnie and Boyle define environmental human rights as: 'terminology used to ascribe value or status to the interests and claims of particular entities. Churchill defines the term broadly as the right of an individual or group to a decent environment that extends beyond what is judicially enforceable but limited to genuine rights as they are found in existing human rights treaties.1 Environmental right is the term used to describe both existing human rights with environmental implications (or derivative rights) and the emerging right to a clean and healthy environment. The interconnectedness of environmental issues and human rights is, however, conspicuous. But it is crystal clear that human rights violations lead to environmental degradation and environmental degradation leads to human rights violations . The term environmental rights is used quite often in contemporary literature on sustainable development to describe the human rights aspect of this very principle, or, as stated in the preamble of the Draft Declaration on Human rights and the Environment: sustainable development links (Cit. p.44) the right to development and the right to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment .2 According to Hill, Wolfson and Targ now-a-days a repeated recognition of a rights-based approach to environmental protection exists. Such recognition demonstrates that a right to a clean and healthy environment, whether as a separate, codified right or as the result of repeated application of other…