and adequate compensation not only for the socio-economic impacts of the interference including opportunity costs but also to adverse social impacts. All measures that are necessary for supporting the resettlement and full rehabilitation of the livelihood of affected people should be put in place. 26. The other right that is also the subject matter of the reporting guidelines is Article 24. This article states that ‘[a]ll peoples shall have the right to a general satisfactory environment favourable to their development.’ 27. Central to this right is the recognition of the importance of a clean and safe environment to the quality of life of people. As its terms make clear, what is guaranteed under Article 24 is not the right to an ideal environment that is completely unaffected or completely clean. It is rather an environment that is clean enough for a safe and secure life and development of individuals and people. 28. With regard to the requirement of being favourable to their development, this entails that the environment should be used in a sustainable manner, which fulfills the needs of the present generation, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In this context sustainability is understood as encompassing all aspects of their lives and livelihoods, including identity, culture, religion and other aspects having regard to plurality of interests and the delicate balance that should be struck. In terms of specific legal entitlements that this right gives rise to, people are first and foremost entitled to protection from environmental degradation and pollution. This would entail that people are protected from activities having the effect of degrading or spoiling the soil, water, fauna and flora and the air of the physical environment. 29. Protection from environmental degradation or pollution entails that people are provided with the space (including the right to form community based associations) and the necessary support not only to employ ecologically sustainable use of natural resources for their development but also to conserve their environment. People are also entitled to the enabling legal and institutional frameworks and technical provisions for engaging in awareness creation and capacity development works necessary both to help them avoid practices inimical to their environment and pursue locally adaptable methods of conservation and improvement of their environment. 28 |  African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights