Environmental Policy and Law

HLPF-2016

– High-level Attention to the 2030 Agenda 194

(Reinhard Krapp)

UNGA

– High-level Meeting on SDGs 196

(Seth Kagan)

UNEA-2

– The United Nations Environment Assembly Hits its Stride 198

(Donald Kaniaru and Daniel Magraw)

UNCLOS/ILBI – Prep-Com-1

– Moving Toward a Treaty on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Ocean Resources 201

(Efstathia Laina)

IN MEMORIAM

– Mostafa Tolba of UNEP 205

 – The Not-so-well-known Goodness of a Great Scientist and Leader

(Donald W. Kaniaru)

IPBES-4

– Coming into Its Stride: The Session Meets Expectations 209

CMS – Sharks

– Second Meeting of Signatories 212

(Anastasia Galilaiou)

WTO

– Two Decades of the Tuna-Dolphin Dispute 213

 – A New Wrinkle

(Armin Rosencranz and Aditya Vora)

Minamata Convention/INC-7

– Working to Ensure Success at CoP-1 218

(Efstathia Laina)

IUCN

– Environmental Governance in the Internet Age 222

 – The Impact of New Information and Communication Technologies

(Jérôme Duberry)

Nagoya Protocol

– The Missing Link in ABS 227

 – The Relationship between Resource and Product

(Morten Walløe Tvedt, Vincent Eijsink, Ida Helene Steen, Roger Strand and G. Kristin Rosendal)

ICAO

– Progress Made on the Development of a Global Market-based Measure for Aircraft Emissions 238

(Ruwantissa Abeyratne)

IUCN Academy

– Environmental Law Colloquium 243

 – “The Environment in Court”

(Nicholas A. Robinson)

Maputo Convention

– Revised African Convention Nears Entry Into Force 245

EU

– Environmental Protection v. Free Trade 246

 – “Buy Local” as a Barrier to EU Internal Market

(Janja Hojnik)

IN MEMORIAM

– James W. MacNeill 252

– Hans-Dietrich Genscher 253

(Amela Adrovic)

Syria

– “Blue Growth”: Is it Really Sustainable? 253

 – Transport and Destruction of Syrian Chemical Weapons on the Mediterranean Sea

(G. Samiotis and D. Grekos)

Nigeria

– Sanitation and Waste Management 263

 – Part 2: The Role of Environmental Courts

(Muhammed Tawfi q Ladan)

Bangladesh

– Regulatory Frameworks for Protecting Inland Waters from Pollution: Challenges and Opportunities 270

(Daud Hassan and B.K. Saha)