This book explores the seminal importance of the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972 the Stockholm Conference for the development of international environmental law. By bringing together world leading experts from academia and legal practice, the book charts the development of international environmental law in the 50 years since 1972 in the areas of nature and biodiversity, chemicals and waste, oceans and water, and atmosphere and climate, and with respect to structures and institutions, consumption and production, and human rights and participatory rights in environmental matters. It analyses how the ideas and concepts of the Stockholm Conference have influenced this development and explores the novel ideas that have emerged since then. It describes the approaches of the developed and developing countries in this process and the relationship between international environmental law and other areas of law, such as the law of the sea and international economic law.
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This book explores the development of international environmental law since the seminal 1972 Stockholm conference on the human environment.
Introduction: 50 years of shaping international environmental law Jonas
Ebbesson and David Langlet; Part I. Concepts, Structures, and Institutions:
1. Stockholm 1972 and the birth of international sustainable development law
Nico Schrijver; 2. The missed link between international economic law and
social and environmental issues Ellen Hey;
3. On the international
environmental governance architecture: looking back to look ahead for our
common future Bharat H. Desai; Part II. Human Rights, Participatory Rights,
and the Rule of Law:
4. Litigating human rights and the environment in
international tribunals 19722022: how far have we progressed? Dinah Shelton;
5. Environmental rule of law: from Stockholm 1972 to 2022 and beyond Patricia
Kameri-Mbote, Alvin Gachie, Leonie Geene, Macharia Kaguru and Jan Maina;
6.
The development of environmental access rights and protection of
environmental defenders Ben Boer and Rowena Cantley-Smith; Part III.
Consumption, Production, Chemicals, and Waste:
7. Unrealised ambition or
unattainable goal? Sustainable consumption and production in international
law Eva R. van der Marel and Catherine Redgwell; 8. International regulation
and the management of mining since the 1972 Stockholm conference: from local
to global concerns Timo Koivurova; 9. Chemicals and wastes in international
environmental policy and law: from trail smelter to a circular economy
Katharina Kummer Peiry;
10. The unfinished agenda of Stockholm 1972: a
rights-based approach to chemicals and wastes Marcos A. Orellana; 11. The
dynamics of international and European Union law on waste and chemicals:
past, present, and future Carl Dalhammar; Part IV. The Atmosphere:
12.
Implementing principle 21 of the Stockholm declaration: regional efforts to
regulate transboundary air pollution Phoebe Okowa and Sean O'Reilly;
13.
Climate protection 50 years after Stockholm: international law at the
precipice Jutta Brunnée;
14. A southern state of mind: from being 'mindful of
effects on climate' to climate litigation in the global South Jacqueline
Peel;
15. Trade and atmospheric protection at Stockholm+50: plus ça change?
Harro van Asselt; Part V. Waters:
16. The Stockholm declaration at sea:
influences on the content and context of the law of the sea Richard
Barnes; 17. Linking international regimes on oceans and fresh water since the
1972 Stockholm conference: the case of preventing land-based marine plastic
pollution via international watercourses Yoshifumi Tanaka; Part VI. Nature
and Biodiversity:
18. The progressive development of international
biodiversity law from the 1972 Stockholm conference to the synergistic
protection of biodiversity and human rights, including at the ocean-climate
nexus Elisa Morgera;
19. Aspirations of developing countries in biodiversity
treaty-making processes: dreams deferred? Dire D. Tladi;
20. The influence
of the Stockholm conference on the development of nature protection law at an
international level and in Europe Nicolas de Sadeleer; 21. Fifty years of
international law-making on the environment: women shaping legal principles
and solidarity Claudia Ituarte-Lima; Annex 1. Declaration of the United
Nations conference on the human environment, 1972; Annex 2. Stockholm+50: A
healthy planet for the prosperity of all our responsibility, our
opportunity, summary points of leadership dialogues and outcome.
Jonas Ebbesson is Professor of Environmental Law, former Dean of the Faculty of Law (201217), and Director of the Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is former Chair (201121) and Member (200521) of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee. David Langlet is Professor of Environmental Law at Uppsala University, former Professor of Ocean Governance Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and former Research fellow at Oxford University, UK. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Environmental Law Journal and Member of the Board of the Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre.
