Access rights in environmental issues from the Escazú Agreement as a wager for the construction of an ecological citizenship

Abstract

Starting from the question: what are the deontological dimensions in the regulations from the Escazú Agreement that contribute to the development of an ecological citizenship? this work described citizenship as a predefined category containing different dimensions, as that of ecological citizenship. Later on, a deontological analysis of the Escazú Agreement regulations that contribute to the configuration of this kind of citizenship in Colombia was performed. A qualitative methodology design was employed, with a dogmatic legal approach supported by the deontological dimension of the study of regulations, that can be derived from the trial vision of law, under hermeneutical guidelines, over documentary sources where the debates about citizenship and access rights in environmental issues are held. This allowed the triangulation of sources to build the analysis. It was concluded that the deontological dimensions in the Escazú Agreement connect to a citizenship conceived primarily from the correlation right-duty. Here, duty, as an element for the ecological citizenship, is progressively gaining preponderance, with a preferential differentiating approach that thinks of the reality of the human rights activists in environmental issues.