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Climate change and the advisory function of international courts and tribunals

A coalition of member States led by Vanuatu is bringing a draft resolution to the UNGA to request an...

Global Climate Change as a Planetary Concern: A Wake-Up Call for the Decision-makers

In the wake of COP27, Prof. Bharat H. Desai of the Centre for International Legal Studies at Jawahar...

Scoring a Goal for Latin America and the Caribbean in Plastic Pollution Talks

Key Proposals: The article offers an analysis of the interests of a multilateral negotiation of a bi...

Green Diplomacy: Birth of a new Blog

The Blog “Pathway to the 2022 Declaration” evolves today to “Green Diplomacy.”

The Repurposed UN Trusteeship Council for the Future

The Context and Idea On 15 July 2022, IOS Press published an ideational proposal of this author ent...

Exploring Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground

It is increasingly recognised (even if not always in public) that the goals of the Paris Agreement w...

The international recognition of environmental rights: companies’ obligations

Today's environmental and social challenges make it more necessary than ever to strengthen the envir...

The Contribution of Transnational Environmental Rules and Standards to Realisation of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment

This essay analyses the adoption of Resolution 76/300 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA),...

At the confluence of environmental and human rights law

The recent recognition of the human right to a healthy environment partakes of both international en...

Environmental rule of law and sustainable development are undoubtedly the two most significant terms...

Why is humanity still losing the war against the climate crisis despite five decades worth of intern...

Addressing the Triple Crisis (Climate, Biodiversity and Pollution): Non-regression and Harmony With Nature

The urgency of the situation needs not to be proven anymore. Stockholm +50 represents a once in a ge...