The Montevideo Environmental Law Programme

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-334
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Biggs
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Governing Council ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Environment ◽  
Environment Programme

The Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will hold its next annual meeting in May 1993, and, among other matters, will consider the report of a group of government experts (the report or Nairobi report) on the review, and continuation for another decade, of its Montevideo Programme of environmental law. This program was adopted by the Governing Council of UNEP in 1982 and has been instrumental in the development of domestic and international environmental law during the last decade.

scholarly journals The Role of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Emerging Issues of International Environmental Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Xaver Perrez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
Scientific Policy ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
International Environmental Policy ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Environment

This article takes a closer look at the scientific, policy and catalytic functions of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and its Assembly (UNEA) and UNEA’s role in addressing emerging issues in international environmental policy and law by examining two concrete examples. The first shows how UNEA was able to contribute to the international environmental law on mercury: UNEA played a catalytic policy role by contributing to the development of international soft law, customary law, and treaty law. Further, UNEA played a policy shaping role by influencing the further development of key international environmental law principles in the negotiations of new environmental norms in other fora. The second example describes UNEA’s unsuccessful attempt to address geoengineering. Building on the two examples, the article identifies factors that support or impede the fulfilment of UNEA’s role in addressing emerging issues of international environmental policy and law.

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