Does International Environmental Law Matter in Sustainable Development?
Posted: 30 Jul 2019
Date Written: 2017
Abstract
The main purpose of this article is to examine why it is important to integrate the effectiveness of international environmental agreements in assessing sustainable development and to explore how this could be eventually achieved. It argues that legal indicators may serve as operational tools to assess progress or regression of international environmental law. It first focuses on some general remarks on the significance of international environmental agreements for sustainable development. It then goes on to consider legal indicators as eventual tools for assessing the performance of international environmental agreements in the implementation of the SDGs; it explores the methodological challenges and their limitations. It concludes with some general remarks on future research paths.
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