Pandemic and rights of access to information and participation in environmental matters in Colombia ; Pandemia y derechos de acceso a la información y participación en asuntos ambientales en Colombia

Abstract

The measures adopted by governments to address the pandemic impact the exercise of access rights in environmental matters. In Colombia, these measures have manifested themselves in a profusion of regulations and public documents from national and sub-national authorities. The overall objective guiding this article focuses on understanding how these regulatory measures adopted by the Colombian National Government altered the exercise of rights of access to information and participation in environmental matters. To this end, it initially describes the legal context made up of the extraordinary legislation that is the basis of the measures implemented to deal with the pandemic in the country. Then, a hermeneutic analysis is undertaken on the restriction to the access to environmental information through the regulations issued during the emergency caused by the pandemic, the limitations imposed to the previous consultation and the environmental hearing are studied, and briefly the pronouncements made on these issues by the Inter-American System of Human Rights and its special organs are presented, to finally offer some conclusions. In order to achieve the tasks outlined, a methodology based on the qualitative research model was implemented, with the application of the hermeneutic method and the legal dogmatic approach, applying the documentary technique both for the collection of information and for its analysis. ; Las medidas adoptadas por los gobiernos para enfrentar la pandemia impactan en el ejercicio de los derechos de acceso en asuntos ambientales. En Colombia, estas medidas se han manifestado en una profusa reglamentación y documentos públicos provenientes de las autoridades nacionales y subnacionales. El objetivo general que guía este artículo es comprender cómo esas medidas reglamentarias adoptadas por el Gobierno Nacional de Colombia alteraron el ejercicio de los derechos de acceso a la información y la participación en asuntos ambientales. Para ello inicialmente describimos el contexto jurídico integrado ...