The Necessity of Establishing Environmental Courts with Looking at the Iran Situation

According to the Aarhus Convention, the realization of environmental democracy is based on the three elements of access to information, participation in making decisions and access to court in environmental matters. Given that environmental damage also leads to human harm, some states, in order to achieve environmental democracy, have established environmental judicial and quasi-judicial authorities in their domestic system to provide the right of access to the courts in environmental issues. Due to the high but fragile biodiversity and environmental threats in Iran such as the existence of endangered plant and animal species, environmental pollution, dust, desertification, etc., the lack of such an institution is felt in the country's legal system. The present article descriptively-analytically examines the documents, international jurisprudence and authorities in the domestic law of some states and then assesses the status of the Iranian legal system And in response to the question of which model of environmental courts is more appropriate for Iran, it is concluded that according to the history of specialized courts in the Iranian legal system, the establishment of a special environmental court In the Iranian legal system can provide the grounds for the realization of environmental democracy and consequently sustainable development.