Environmental Human Rights: Is the EU a Leader, a Follower, or a Laggard?

36 pagesThe concept of “environmental human rights” is gradually gaining support in wider academic and policy circles, but it remains an emerging and essentially contested notion

Is multilateralism the future? Sustainable development or globalisation as 'a comprehensive vision of the future of humanity'

This paper provides an overall evaluation of the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which took place in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September 2002, in a historical perspective, against the background of earlier major United Nations conferences and General Assembly resolutions on environment and development. It focuses on the political and institutional context of the WSSD and its preparatory process and explores its policy implications for future international cooperation on sustainable development in a globalizing world. Both the results of the formal intergovernmental negotiations and the new phenomenon of 'partnerships for sustainable development' between governments, international organizations, the private sector and other major groups are analysed. The Johannesburg Declaration and the WSSD Plan of Implementation are shown to contain little in the way of political vision, credible new commitments and innovative approaches, likely to reinvigorate the implementation of the objectives of sustainable development as formulated in Rio. Though ostensibly designed to give a new political impetus to multilateralism, the WSSD rather revealed the inadequacy of intergovernmental political governance structures to address the social and environmental consequences of economic globalization. © 2005 Springer.SCOPUS: ch.binfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Developing more sustainably?

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Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy. Regulating Exports of Hazardous Chemicals: The EU?s External Chemical Safety Policy

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020

International law and sustainable development: Any progress in Johannesburg?

While one of the stated aims of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro was to promote the further development of international environmental law, and, more specifically, to examine the feasibility of elaborating general rights and obligations of States in the field of the environment, the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg 10 years later, did not have any specific mandate to contribute to the further development of international law. Its deliberations nevertheless addressed a number of legal issues and may turn out to be of some relevance to the future evolution of international law, not only in the field of the environment, but also in other areas relating to sustainable development. This article will therefore assess the outcomes of the WSSD and their relevance for the implementation and development of norms and principles of a general and universal nature, which will govern the future conduct and cooperation of States in the field of sustainable development.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Regulating exports of hazardous chemicals: The EU's external chemical safety policy

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Is multilateralism the future? Sustainable development or globalisation as 'a comprehensive vision of the future of humanity'

This paper provides an overall evaluation of the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which took place in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September 2002, in a historical perspective, against the background of earlier major United Nations conferences and General Assembly resolutions on environment and development. It focuses on the political and institutional context of the WSSD and its preparatory process and explores its policy implications for future international cooperation on sustainable development in a globalizing world. Both the results of the formal intergovernmental negotiations and the new phenomenon of 'partnerships for sustainable development' between governments, international organizations, the private sector and other major groups are analysed. The Johannesburg Declaration and the WSSD Plan of Implementation are shown to contain little in the way of political vision, credible new commitments and innovative approaches, likely to reinvigorate the implementation of the objectives of sustainable development as formulated in Rio. Though ostensibly designed to give a new political impetus to multilateralism, the WSSD rather revealed the inadequacy of intergovernmental political governance structures to address the social and environmental consequences of economic globalization.SCOPUS: cp.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Droit international et européen de l'environnement

SYL-11248 = Tome 1 ;SYL-11260 = Tome 2SROI5P, DROI5C, DECO6, DECO8T, DFIS6, DINT6, DINT6-A, DINT6-P, DEUR6, DROI-C-573info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Climate change: The international and European policy framework

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