Environmental Policy and Law

UN/GA-70

– Advances in Sustainability and Democracy 2

– Sustainable Development in the Second Committee 10

(Reinhard Krapp)

UNFCCC/CoP-21

– The Paris Agreement: An Early Assessment 14

(Annalisa Savaresi)

– In Memoriam 18

Maurice Strong: The World’s Foremost Environmental Leader

(Jim MacNeill)

ILC

– The Environment in Armed Conflicts 19

 – Draft Principles –

(Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos)

UNEP/Montevideo Programme IV

– Global Progress in Environmental Law 23

 – Mid-term Review

— Integration of Environmental Law 27

 – Coordination and Cooperation –

(Daniel Magraw)

INTERPOL-UNEP-2

– An International Roadmap for Tackling Environmental Crime 29

(Efstathia Laina)

UNCCD/CoP-12

– Land Degradation Neutrality 32

 – Operationalisation and Synergies –

(Efstathia Laina)

UN Watercourses Convention

– Implementation and Relationship to the UNECE Water Convention 35

(Stephen C. McCaffrey)

Montreal Protocol/MoP-27

– Ozone Protection: Continued Progress 40

Stockholm Convention/POPRC-11

Rotterdam Convention/CRC-11

– Key Chemical Issues Identified 43

World Heritage Convention/GA-20

– Sustainable Development in Operation 47

(Efstathia Laina)

Geoengineering: Issues and Perspectives 50

(Himangana Gupta)

Shark-finning: Damage to Global Commons 57

(Dishi Bhomawat)

Transboundary Water Sharing: Issues Involved 62

(Subash P. Rai, Nayan Sharma and A.K. Lohani)

UNECE/Water Convention MoP-7

– A New Era for Water Governance 68

(Stephen Stec)

UNECE/Aarhus Convention

– Compliance Committee Developments 72

(Elsa Tsioumani)

FOREST EUROPE

– Sustainable Forest Management and Possible Agreement 74

(Jennifer Covert)

India– Delhi’s Air Pollution 77

– (Re)distribution and Air Quality Regulations –

(Naresh Kumar, Marc Linderman, Allen D. Chu, Travers Buda, Sachchidanand Tripathi, Andrew D. Foster and Dong Liang)

North Korea

– Green Diplomacy 86

 – An Opportunity for Peace-building? –

(Rakhyun E. Kim and Saleem H. Ali)

UNEP/Montevideo Programme IV 99

– Recommendations of the Meeting of senior government officials expert in environmental law on the midterm review of the fourth Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law