{"title":"Prólogo.","authors":"Christian Byk","doi":"10.54695/jibes.364.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54695/jibes.364.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"36 4","pages":"11-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147476165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapitre 1. L’effectivité du droit international mérite une procédure de recours innovante.","authors":"Laurence Azoux Bacrie","doi":"10.54695/jibes.372.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54695/jibes.372.0013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The text argues that the effectiveness of international environmental law, in the face of the climate emergency, requires the creation of accessible, binding and preventive remedies. It criticises the inadequacy of current mechanisms, which are overly dependent on the will of States and often lack effective enforcement. It proposes investing a supervisory authority capable of autonomous initiative, like the European Commission, and drawing inspiration from the European Committee of Social Rights&#8217; model of collective complaints, which is more appropriate than belated individual litigation. This mechanism would allow for comprehensive oversight of public policies rather than a case-by-case approach to violations. The analysis emphasises that environmental protection can already be linked to the right to health (Article&#160;11&#160;of the Social Charter), while recalling the reluctance of states to accept binding procedures. At the national level, the author criticises the technicality and normative ambiguity of the French climate law of&#160;22&#160;August&#160;2021, which weakens its scope. Finally, she warns against the primacy of &#8216;soft law&#8217; and the lack of real justiciability, arguing that a credible climate policy requires precise obligations accompanied by effective sanctions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"37 2","pages":"11-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148378360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapitre 3. Les principes de l’écologie intégrale.","authors":"Fabien Revol","doi":"10.54695/jibes.364.0055","DOIUrl":"10.54695/jibes.364.0055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of integral ecology is presented as a new paradigm proposed by Pope Francis in the encyclical Laudato si&#8217; (2015). It offers a critical re-reading of the modern paradigm, marked by a &#8220;despotic&#8221; anthropocentrism (LS&#160;68, 118), to promote integral ecology as a horizon of conversion. Inspired by Jacques Maritain (Humanisme int&#233;gral, 1936) and Paul VI (Populorum Progressio, 1967), this concept seeks to reconcile human and environmental ecology by integrating social justice and biodiversity preservation. Integral ecology, asserting that &#8220;everything is connected&#8221; (LS&#160;138), is grounded in an ontological key: the interdependence of beings, reflecting the Trinity in creation (Bonaventure). It articulates four fundamental relationships (God, others, oneself, creation), symbolized by a tetrahedron, and is guided by principles such as &#8220;reality is more important than ideas&#8221; (EG&#160;231&#8211;233) or &#8220;the whole is greater than the part&#8221; (LS&#160;141). Pope Francis, echoing the &#8220;cry of the earth and the cry of the poor&#8221; (LS&#160;49), links ecological crisis and poverty, criticizing the &#8220;throwaway culture&#8221; (LS&#160;22). Integral ecology, with its universalist scope, addresses all people&#8212;believers and non-believers alike&#8212;by fostering dialogue among sciences, religions, and politics. Rooted in the Franciscan tradition (St. Francis of Assisi as a model of harmony) and the theology of the people (Scannone), it promotes &#8220;social and universal fraternity&#8221; (FT&#160;2020). Finally, it calls for a conversion of our representations of nature, in response to Lynn White Jr.&#8217;s critique of Christian anthropocentrism, and for an ecology lived as &#8220;good news for creation.&#8221.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"36 4","pages":"55-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147476086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapitre 3. Un droit vivant pour repenser les sujets et les objets du droit climatique.","authors":"Marie-Angèle Hermitte","doi":"10.54695/jibes.372.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54695/jibes.372.0045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the climate convention, adopted in&#160;1992, is only slowly being incorporated into positive law, important steps were taken between&#160;2024&#160;and&#160;2025&#160;with one ruling and three opinions from the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the International Court of Justice, which clarified the legal obligations of states with regard to climate action. In doing so, the four jurisdictions have confirmed their role as &#8220;living instruments&#8221; with a part to play in responding to the &#8220;existential challenges&#8221; facing &#8220;the human race.&#8221; They have thus created new legal entities, with GHGs being &#8220;substances&#8221; and &#8220;energy&#8221; within the meaning of maritime law, and the climate system moving from the status of an unidentified legal entity to the category, created for the occasion by the International Court of Justice, of a global commons or indivisible global asset. Without achieving legal personality, humanity has changed its face, now being understood in generational terms. The IACHR has innovated radically by insisting on an intersectional approach and making nature a collective subject of public interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"37 2","pages":"43-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148378401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapitre 5. La mort et la personnalité juridique sous le prisme d’un regard croisé.","authors":"Hamadi Gatta Wagué","doi":"10.54695/jibes.364.0117","DOIUrl":"10.54695/jibes.364.0117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Death has always been an insoluble legal dilemma. It has never been given a legal definition. Nonetheless, such competence is left to the medical science which is better furnished to establish death. The law only covers the property and non-property effects of death. The immediate consequence of death is the termination of legal personality if it is certified by a medico-legal decision. Sometimes death is surrounded by uncertainty related to the absence or disappearance of somebody. In those cases, death cannot terminate legal personality. However, precautionary measures are taken pending the pronunciation of the death to end legal personality. The classic conception of death putting an end to legal personality is often called into question if we enquiry the will of the deceased and his moral rights which are not in line with the automatic termination of legal personality. This question is becoming more and more remarkable with the appearance of digital identity, which overthrow the issue of death that is difficult to implement in the digital scale. Physical death is difficult to duplicate in the digital world. This study aims to show that death cannot always systematically put an end to legal personality. Some duties continue to produce their effects for better or for worse.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"36 4","pages":"117-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147476060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapitre 6. Droits de la Mar Menor : la créolisation européenne des droits de la nature et l’énigme de l’efficacité.","authors":"Thomas Fabre","doi":"10.54695/jibes.372.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54695/jibes.372.0087","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the effects of recognising the rights of the Mar Menor by questioning the traditional concept of efficacy. Having become the first European natural entity to be recognised as a legal entity in&#160;2022, the Spanish lagoon of Mar Menor would seem to be an ideal case study for empirically assessing the efficacy of Rights of Nature in Europe. However, field research suggests that the rights of the Mar Menor have effects that go beyond legal efficacy. Drawing on the concept of creolisation theorised by &#201;douard Glissant, I propose to describe the rights of the Mar Menor as a European creolisation of the rights of nature. I then develop the concept of fecundity to describe the political inventiveness of a law that invites the creation of new institutions for political deliberation on the future of the living community.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"37 2","pages":"85-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148378380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Juste un mot.","authors":"Christian Byk","doi":"10.54695/jibes.364.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54695/jibes.364.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"36 4","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147476177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapitre 2. Droits humains et justice environnementale.","authors":"Christian Byk","doi":"10.54695/jibes.372.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54695/jibes.372.0019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Environmental justice seeks to address a range of recurring issues, such as disproportionate exposure to environmental risks and the resulting adverse health effects. In Latin America, regional cooperation in the field of environmental justice has developed with a focus on access to judicial remedies. In the era of rights, procedures and governance mechanisms constitute a central and strategic field that has been the focus of a great deal of innovation and challenge, leading some authors to view this continent as a laboratory capable of influencing the law. The Escaz&#250; Agreement (2020), which establishes procedural rights, particularly for the benefit of indigenous peoples, holds great potential for making international environmental law more effective.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"37 2","pages":"17-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148378362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapitre 4. Derecho alambiente sano. La opinión consultiva de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sobre cambio climático.","authors":"Aída Kemelmajer de Carlucci","doi":"10.54695/jibes.372.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54695/jibes.372.0055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The right to a healthy environment, expressly recognized in inter-American human rights law system, has been developed in depth in the advisory opinion OC-32/25&#160;of May&#160;29, 2025&#160;on climate change, in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has established a series of obligations for States, especially based on the principles of prevention and precaution.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"37 2","pages":"53-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148378437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<span class=\"marquage souligne\">Chapitre 2</span>. La déclaration de principes éthiques en rapportavec le changement climatique de l’Unesco : la question du climat et des inégalités en santé.","authors":"Christian Byk","doi":"10.54695/jibes.364.0041","DOIUrl":"10.54695/jibes.364.0041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is surprising that this Declaration, which &#8220;recommends that States consider these ethical principles in all decisions and actions relating to climate change&#8221;, makes no mention of the issue of health, despite the fact that, as the WHO points out, &#8220;climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health: clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food, secure housing&#8221;, which leads the organisation to consider that &#8220;climate change is the greatest health threat facing humanity&#8221;. However, in relation to these observations by the WHO, the Declaration clearly puts forward two axes that concretise the link between climate change and inequalities in health. These are, firstly, the application of the principles set out in the Declaration to the determinants of health mentioned by the WHO and, secondly, the particular attention that the Declaration pays to vulnerable individuals and groups. It is from the combination of these two approaches that the &#8220;policy&#8221; that UNESCO seems to be suggesting emerges, albeit indirectly and partially. It is less that of a specific approach to access to health as such than the desire to emphasise both the determinants of health in a situation of climate change and the vulnerability of target populations to the increased health risks caused by climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":73577,"journal":{"name":"Journal international de bioethique et d'ethique des sciences","volume":"36 4","pages":"41-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147475510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}