The Role Of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Author : Ulrich Beyerlin,Peter-Tobias Stoll,Rüdiger Wolfrum
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004146174

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Ensuring Compliance With Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Ulrich Beyerlin,Peter-Tobias Stoll,Rüdiger Wolfrum Pdf

In this publication, a number of recognized practitioners and scholars undertake to explore the realities and the conceptual underpinnings of environmental compliance mechanisms. In a relatively short period of time, such mechanisms were introduced in a wide range of new and existing environmental regimes. Yet, little is known about their function in practice and their implications. This is puzzling when considering, that the new mechanisms considerably depart from traditional patterns of counteraction and dispute settlement. Instead they build on partnership and cooperation and include a wide range of possible reactions, which range from those having coercive power to supportive measures. Quite a number of those mechanisms and their functioning are explained in the publication in order to lay ground for some cross-cutting analysis, which covers inter alia reporting, inspection and monitoring, supportive financial incentives and the interrelationship between compliance mechanisms and the principle of state responsibility and dispute settlement. Finally the role of non-governmental organizations is addressed. Practitioners and scholars in international environmental affairs and international law more generally will benefit significantly from the inside views and thorough reflection as provided for in this book.

Author : Britta Sjöstedt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1509922563

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The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Britta Sjöstedt Pdf

The environment suffers enormously during armed conflicts and, despite the increasing awareness of the pressing need to protect the planet, devastating environmental damage can occur legally at times of war. This book suggests that - apart from the protection offered under law of armed conflict - environmental treaties or multilateral agreements (MEAs) can complement and strengthen environmental protection when war occurs. Previous research has focused on the protection offered under the law of armed conflict (in particular international humanitarian law) and customary international environmental law concerning wartime environmental damage, or whether environmental treaties remain applicable at times of armed conflict. This book, however, is the first in-depth scholarly examination of how environmental treaties can apply in wartime and how they can contribute to the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict. It also offers an updated study of environmental protection under the law of armed conflict, including the latest developments in the International Law Commission's work on this underexplored topic.

Author : Tuula Honkonen
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041131539

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The Common But Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Tuula Honkonen Pdf

Built in to every multilateral environmental agreement is a dilemma: how to incorporate justice and fairness on the one hand and effectiveness on the other. Our immense difficulty in meeting this two-edged imperative highlights the fact that we are, at best, at an early stage in the development of international environmental ethics, and that no coherent and effective ethical system yet exists in this context. This remarkable book starts from a conviction that the principle of common but differentiated responsibility (CBDR) offers the best way forward toward the much-desired goal of sustainable development. Presenting a full-scale, multidisciplinary assessment of the feasibility of the principle of CBDR in multilateral environmental agreements, encompassing legal and policy status perspectives as well as historical developments and future prospects, this study identifies issues and aspects in the theoretical and practical application of the CBDR principle. The author responds with in-depth knowledge and awareness to such specific questions as the following: What does the principle of common but differentiated responsibility entail in international environmental law, with special reference to international environmental treaties? How is the principle reflected in the burden-sharing design of current agreements? What problems and challenges does the practical application of the CBDR principle present to the international community and individual countries as well as to the international environmental regimes themselves? What factors should be taken into account when assessing the success or failure of the principle? What is the status of the principle in international environmental law (currently and possibly in the future), and what are its implications in the broader international context? The author examines methods for differentiation from both theoretical and actual treaty-level viewpoints. She offers examples from the negotiation history of international environmental treaties to shed light on the importance of information-sharing and wide participation during the negotiations. Recognizing that, in the international environmental field, problems of economic development and the geopolitics of global wealth distribution soon come to the fore, and that each stateand’s right to development should not be too heavily restricted under international environmental regimes, she demonstrates that the CBDR principle has a strong potential to formally integrate the environment and development at the international level. The study will be of immeasurable value in promoting understanding of how CBDR actually works. It will help lawyers and policymakers perceive how different parties want to use the principle, and to discern clearly what options could be chosen by the parties, which aspects are crucial, and what factors influence the effectiveness of the arrangements.

Author : Britta Sjostedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509922543

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The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Britta Sjostedt Pdf

The environment suffers enormously during armed conflicts and, despite the increasing awareness of the pressing need to protect the planet, devastating environmental damage can occur legally at times of war. This book suggests that – apart from the protection offered under law of armed conflict – environmental treaties or multilateral agreements (MEAs) can complement and strengthen environmental protection when war occurs. Previous research has focused on the protection offered under the law of armed conflict (in particular international humanitarian law) and customary international environmental law concerning wartime environmental damage, or whether environmental treaties remain applicable at times of armed conflict. This book, however, is the first in-depth scholarly examination of how environmental treaties can apply in wartime and how they can contribute to the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict. It also offers an updated study of environmental protection under the law of armed conflict, including the latest developments in the International Law Commission's work on this underexplored topic.

Author : Philippos C. Spyropoulos,Theodore P. Fortsakis
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041148889

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The Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Philippos C. Spyropoulos,Theodore P. Fortsakis Pdf

The Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Author : Anna Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351974066

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Compliance by Anna Huggins Pdf

The adoption of administrative procedures in global governance has the potential to foster proper consideration of marginalized actors’ interests, yet risks entrenching the dominance of the well-resourced and powerful. Accordingly, this book proposes a new framework for evaluating the extent to which administrative procedures in the compliance systems of multilateral environmental agreements constrain power and promote regard for the interests of affected states, which are frequently developing and transition countries. This framework is applied to the compliance systems under the Montreal Protocol, the Kyoto Protocol and CITES, which address critical global environmental issues of ozone-layer depletion, climate change and trade in endangered species, respectively. The analysis shows that, under certain conditions, administrative procedures limit the influence of states’ asymmetric power on compliance deliberations. Furthermore, systematic adoption of these procedures increases the opportunities for affected states’ interests to be voiced and considered in compliance decision-making processes.

Author : Carl Bruch,United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9280727036

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Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Carl Bruch,United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

This Manual expands upon Guidelines on Compliance with and Enforcement of MultilateralEnvironmental Agreements (MEAs). Many States participated in the developmentand negotiation of the Guidelines, which were adopted by the UNEP GoverningCouncil in 2002. While this Manual is not a negotiated document, it also is the result ofa collaborative process involving a wide range of numerous individuals around the world.These people assisted in drafting case studies and other contributions, reviewing the text,and suggesting substantive and formatting changes.

Author : Gregory Lawrence Rose,United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9280728067

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Compliance Mechanisms Under Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Gregory Lawrence Rose,United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

This report seeks to perform a comparative analysis of compliance mechanisms under selected multilateral environment agreements (MEAs). It seeks to contribute to UNEP's work on implementation mechanisms for international instruments. The report identifies strategic opportunities for interlinkages and synergies in compliance mechanisms among MEAs.

Author : Pamela Chasek,Lynn M. Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136450884

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The Roads from Rio by Pamela Chasek,Lynn M. Wagner Pdf

At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements points to an unprecedented achievement, but is worth examining for its accomplishments and shortcomings. This book provides a review of twenty years of multilateral environmental negotiations (1992-2012). The authors have participated in most of these negotiating processes and use their first-hand knowledge as writers for the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin as they illustrate the changes that have taken place over the past twenty years. The chapters examine the proliferation of meetings, the changes in the actors and their roles (governments, nongovernmental organizations, secretariats), the interlinkages of issues, the impact of scientific advice, and the challenges of implementation across negotiating processes, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the UN Forum on Forests, the chemicals conventions (Stockholm, Basel and Rotterdam), the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Migratory Species and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280728075

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Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

A tool to help negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements to prepare strategies and to participate more effectively in the negotiations and focus on environmental issues, their creation of binding international law, and their inclusion.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
ISBN : UCSD:31822027909530

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Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

This report examines various cases to analyze the use of trade measures in environmental agreements and assembles a series of common issues and lessons learned.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280728083

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Negotiating and Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

The Manual provides for a step-by-step introduction and expert advice for representatives of NGOs and other stakeholders on how they can effectively engage in developing and implementing Multilateral Environment Agreements.

Author : J. B. Ojwang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : IND:30000068975881

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements by J. B. Ojwang Pdf

Author : Lawrence Susskind,Saleem Hassan Ali
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199397990

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Environmental Diplomacy by Lawrence Susskind,Saleem Hassan Ali Pdf

"International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades. However, decisions on policies to address key issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone depletion, hazardous waste transport, and numerous other planetary challenges require individual countries to adhere to international norms. Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements provides an accessible narrative on understanding the geopolitics of negotiating international environmental agreements and clear guidance on improving the current system. Authors Lawrence Susskind and Saleem Ali expertly observe international environmental negotiations to effectively inform the reader on the geopolitics of protecting our planet. This second edition offers an additional perspective from the Global South as well as providing a broader analysis of the role of science in environmental treaty-making. It provides a unique contribution as a panoramic analysis of the process of environmental treaty-making"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Author : Malgosia Fitzmaurice,Duncan French
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004297845

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International Environmental Law and Governance by Malgosia Fitzmaurice,Duncan French Pdf

This publication present in-depth study of the very topical subject-matter of legal powers of Conferences of the Parties established on the basis of Multilateral Environmental Agreements. The book deals with the legitimacy and efficiency of the decisions of such bodies.