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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Compliance with Global Environmental Policy : Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases
Compliance with Global Environmental Policy : Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, set off an unprecedented development of new international environmental treaties.1 Before 1972 only a dozen international treaties with relevance to the environment were in force; four decades later more than a thousand such instruments can be counted.
As the use of international treaties as a means to combat environmental degradation has increased, so have concerns regarding the compliance of states with the commitments to which they have agreed. Implementation and effectiveness of international environmental treaties, and compliance with their requirements, remain central issues and will continue to increase in importance ...
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