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1 Problem-Based Clusters of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) 1 Problem-Based Clusters of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)
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1.1 Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Desertification, and Ozone Layer Destruction 1.1 Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Desertification, and Ozone Layer Destruction
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1.2 Chemicals, Wastes, and Transboundary Air Pollutants 1.2 Chemicals, Wastes, and Transboundary Air Pollutants
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1.3 Biodiversity, Wildlife, and Species at Risk 1.3 Biodiversity, Wildlife, and Species at Risk
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1.4 Protection of Transboundary Freshwater Systems and Wetlands 1.4 Protection of Transboundary Freshwater Systems and Wetlands
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1.5 Protection of the World’s Oceans and Marine Resources 1.5 Protection of the World’s Oceans and Marine Resources
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1.6 Regional and Bilateral Environmental Innovations 1.6 Regional and Bilateral Environmental Innovations
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2 The UN Role in Treaty-Making to Address Environmental Problems 2 The UN Role in Treaty-Making to Address Environmental Problems
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3 UN Treaty-Making to Promote Sustainable Development Solutions 3 UN Treaty-Making to Promote Sustainable Development Solutions
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4 Contributions of International Law on the Environment and Sustainable Development toward Achieving the UN Charter 4 Contributions of International Law on the Environment and Sustainable Development toward Achieving the UN Charter
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10 Environment and Sustainable Development
Get accessMarie-Claire Cordonier Segger is Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Full Professor of International Law at the University of Waterloo, and an LCIL and CEENRG Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Alexandra Harrington is Lead Counsel for Governance & Intergenerational Justice at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.
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Published:02 July 2019
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Abstract
This chapter considers the UN contributions to treaty-making in practice on the environment and sustainable development. It begins with a brief survey of the crafting and “clustering” of multilateral environmental agreements as international responses to emerging global environmental problems. Specifically, this chapter considers the role of the UN in this process, focusing on successive waves of treaty-making over recent decades. It suggests that the UN has played a very important role in negotiations in this field, and continues to serve as a crucial and valuable actor in the implementation and refinement of these treaties and the broader problem-based clusters, in spite of very limited resources. This chapter identifies several key treaties that address a selection of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs,) leading to a concluding consideration of how international accords in this field are, in turn, contributing to the UN Charter. It suggests that, without the UN-facilitated treaties, many SDGs could be considered “hollow,” dependent on voluntary collaborations, and devoid of reliable regimes to achieve their targets. Not all relationships are equally integrated. Fragmentation, duplication, unintended overlapping of obligations or even conflicts may exist. As international governance becomes more sophisticated and complex, these interrelated instruments can be negotiated, implemented, and interactionally refined across multiple nested levels. To this end, this chapter argues that adoption of the SDGs may support greater coherence across the UN system.
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