Evolución jurisprudencial del derecho al medio ambiente en Colombia y su protección por parte de las Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales.

Abstract

The principle of sustainable development that currently governs the entire world encourages Colombian legislation to devise instruments to support coherent actions in the harmonization of technological progress and the satisfaction of society's needs without prejudice to present and future conservation of the biodiverse environment that sustains life, this is how in Colombia, through its political-territorial organization has been created environmental authorities at a regional level whose power is focused on the sanctioning function and the faculty to prevention that the law grants them to regulate, limit or expand the positive or negative impact that human action in society causes on its environment and thus prevent its damage or mitigate it, in which case, it is pertinent to sanction those responsible to confirm the awareness of its preservation and motivate the formulation and implementation of protection programs and projects that guarantee the continuity of an environment as we know it until today.