The article is devoted to the analysis of the constitutional right to an environment safe for life and health in the light of global environmental constitutionalism, in particular through the prism of the practices of foreign constitutional courts.

Various approaches to the concept and content of the right to an environment safe for life and health are analyzed, in particular those proposed in scientific and practical commentaries on the Constitution of Ukraine. It is concluded that the modern understanding of the right to an environment safe for life and health cannot be reduced solely to the compliance of anthropogenic activity with environmental standards. In light of global environmental constitutionalism, two points that influence its modern understanding should be taken into account: first, there is a terminological difference between the standard of a safe and favorable environment; second, environmental standards themselves may violate the essential content of the right to an environment that is safe for life and health.When examining the issue of the contemporary understanding of the right to an environment that is safe for life and health in the light of global environmental constitutionalism, it is important to consider not only international legal regulation of environmental protection, but also the practice of international courts (primarily the ECHR and the Court of Justice of the European Union) and foreign constitutional courts, primarily in European countries. Their generalization allows us to identify four key features of the right to an environment that is safe for life and health, which serve as guidelines for constitutional courts when considering environmental cases: (1) its extraterritorial nature, (2) the focus on ensuring and protecting this right not only for the present but also for future generations, (3) its close interconnection with other human rights, and (4) the need to adhere to the principle of sustainable development in order to uphold this right.

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