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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.
International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment
International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment
This chapter examines the development, principles, and implementation of international environmental law.1 Half a century ago, discussion of this topic would probably have begun with a question as to whether the subject of international environmental law even existed: there were no treatises or journals specifically on the subject, only a very small number of law school seminars were taught, and most public international law texts avoided addressing the environment, with little risk of being criticized for incompleteness.
Today the situation is entirely different. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has confirmed the “obligations of States to respect and protect the natural environment.”2 Moreover, ...
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