The Binary Logic of the Compilation of the Ecological Environment Code and Its Unfolding

The Ecological Environment Code,as a significant legal instrument for the evolution of ecological civilization,possesses both substantive and formal dimensions.First,it aims to serve the national ecological civilization strategy.Second,it elucidates potential pathways for legal interpretation,development of legal rules,and promotion of judicial governance,restraining arbitrary behavior and disorder while facilitating systemic cohesion.The compilation of the Ecological Environment Code unfolds through the main threads of substantive and formal logic.By prioritizing conservation,protection,and restoring the natural environment,resource management,pollution prevention,and ecological protection are coordinated,integrating legislation on ecological protection with management of natural resources and pollution prevention to achieve both"harm avoidance"and"beneficial trends."Employing the formal logical main thread of the structure of the relationship between power and rights,we present four types of norms:ex post facto remedy,hazard prevention,risk prevention,and independent value selection.

The Idea of“Codification”of Human Rights to Environment

As China has embarked on a new journey to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and marches toward the Second Centenary Goal,improving the protection of human rights in environmental protection has become a key task to meet people's growing demand for a better life.The international community has reached a consensus on the human rights attribute of environmental rights,and China has also recognized it in its National Human Rights Action Plan of China(2021-2025).Early claims for environmental human rights gave birth to modern environmental law at the international level,while the global consensus on sustainable development promoted the new development of environmental human rights.In China,the construction of a"beautiful China"has become the national goal confirmed by the Constitution.The confirmation of environmental rights in the planned environmental code can further clarify the connotation of the value system of the code and help clarify the institutional structure and attribution logic of the code.Based on the subjective right and objective value of environmental rights,the specific scheme for the"codification"of environment rights is to construct the system from three levels of ontological provision,guarantee provision and reliefprovision.