International law has become the key arena for protecting the
global environment. Since the 1970s, literally hundreds of
international treaties, protocols, conventions, and rules under
customary law have been enacted to deal with such problems as
global warming, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution. Proponents
of the legal approach to environmental protection have already
achieved significant successes in such areas as saving endangered
species, reducing pollution, and cleaning up whole regions, but
skeptics point to ongoing environmental degradation to argue that
international law is an ineffective tool for protecting the global
environment.
In this book, Joseph DiMento reviews the record of international
efforts to use law to make our planet more livable. He looks at how
law has been used successfully--often in highly innovative ways--to
influence the environmental actions of governments, multinational
corporations, and individuals. And he also assesses the failures of
international law in order to make policy recommendations that
could increase the effectiveness of environmental law. He concludes
that a "supranational model" is not the preferred way to influence
the actions of sovereign nations and that international
environmental law has been and must continue to be a laboratory to
test approaches to lawmaking and implementation for the global
community.
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