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Sustainable development law is at the intersection of three principal fields of international law: international economic law, international environmental law, and international social law. Sustainable development law refers to emerging substantive body of legal instruments, norms, and treaties supported by distinctive procedural elements. In ...
It covers legal issues pertaining to sustainable development and environmental law. [2] The Australian Research Council (ARC) ranked the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law among the best English-language law journals in the world giving it an A rating - a rating shared by only 165 law reviews globally out of 1,265 law journals. [3]
The Convention recognized for the first time in international law that the conservation of biodiversity is "a common concern of humankind" and is an integral part of the development process. The agreement covers all ecosystems, species, and genetic resources. It links traditional conservation efforts to the economic goal of using biological ...
Global and regional environmental issues are increasingly the subject of international law. Debates over environmental concerns implicate core principles of international law and have been the subject of numerous international agreements and declarations. Customary international law is an important source of international environmental law ...
International Development: Focuses on legal aspects of international aid, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. Labor and Services Law: Addresses the legal dimensions of international labor standards and service trade. Investment Law and Arbitration: Deals with the legal framework for international investments and dispute resolution.
Sustainable development overlaps with the idea of sustainability which is a normative concept. [5] UNESCO formulated a distinction between the two concepts as follows: "Sustainability is often thought of as a long-term goal (i.e. a more sustainable world), while sustainable development refers to the many processes and pathways to achieve it." [6]
The Lempert-Nguyen indicator, devised in 2008 for practitioners, starts with the standards for sustainable development that have been agreed upon by the international community and then looks at whether intergovernmental organizations such as the UNDP and other development actors are applying these principles in their projects and work as a whole.
In addition, key contributions of Our Common Future to the concept of sustainable development include the recognition that the many crises facing the planet are interlocking crises that are elements of a single crisis of the whole [4] and of the vital need for the active participation of all sectors of society in consultation and decisions ...