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Book Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book The Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by Nordic Council Of Ministers Staff and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Common But Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book The Common But Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by Tuula Honkonen and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Negotiating and Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements  MEAs

Download or read book Negotiating and Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements MEAs written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2007 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book The Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by Philippos C. Spyropoulos and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Book Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements  Synthesis Report of Three Studies

Download or read book Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements Synthesis Report of Three Studies written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ensuring Compliance with Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book Ensuring Compliance with Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by U. Beyerlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Roads from Rio

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  • Author : Pamela Chasek
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-04-23
  • ISBN : 1136450882
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Roads from Rio written by Pamela Chasek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by Carl Bruch and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2006 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by Britta Sjostedt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Compliance

Download or read book Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Compliance written by Anna Huggins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2006 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Trade and the Environment

Download or read book Trade and the Environment written by Agata Fijalkowski and published by Gaunt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Findings and commentaries ensuing from the International Conference on the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements : Ways & Means, held on 15-16 Sept. 1997 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Book Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Download or read book Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Causality, trading system, CITES, Montreal Protocol, basel convention.

Book Trade and Environment

Download or read book Trade and Environment written by Duncan Brack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can trade liberalization and environmental protection be pursued together, or do the two objectives inevitably conflict? The rapid evolution of international regimes and institutions is increasingly bringing such conflicts to the fore. A consensus, both on the extent of the clash, and on how it can be resolved, does not yet exist. This volume includes the proceedings from the RIIA's April 1997 conference on trade and the environment, which brought together prominent contributors from all sides of the debate, including industry, governments, academics, NG0s and intergovernmental institutions such as the World Trade Organization, UNEP, UNCTAD and the OECD. They examine the background to the issue; the impacts of trade-related environmental measures; the relationship between environmental policy, competitiveness and investment; industry and developing country concerns; and the evolution of dispute settlement procedures in the EU and the WTO. The concluding chapter features a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the debate and of the WTO's Committee on Trade and Environment.