Although the relationship between human rights, environment and development is widely recognized, it still requires discussion particularly in relation to the scope and content of an emerging right to the conservation of the environment. The expressions qualifying the word “environment” are diverse and many adjectives have been used to describe its characteristics; decent, secure, pleasant, liveable, desirable, natural, pure, clean, safe, satisfactory, healthy, human, unpolluted, ecologically balanced and so on. However, these various qualifications reveal the same underlying aspirations reflected also in the developing practice and legislation at national, regional and international levels.