The role of the environmental treaties’ Conference of the parties in the development of international environmental law

Subject Areas : environmental low

Seyed-Abbas  Poorhashemi ¹ (Scientific Member & President of the Canadian Institute for International Law Expertise (CIFILE), Toronto, Canada. * (Corresponding Author))
Azam  Parandeh Motlagh ² (Ph.D Candidate, Environmental Law Department- Islamic Azad University- Science & Research Branch of Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2016-04-06 Accepted : 2016-06-13 Published : 2021-01-20

Keywords: International Treaties, Sustainable development, Environmental Treaties, International Environmental law, Conference of the Parties,

Abstract :

One of the most important international structures that play a major role in the development of international environmental law is the Conference of the parties in the environmental treaties. However, the Conference of the Parties’ status and legitimacy for environmental regulations, developing and restricting the parties’ obligations and requirements which contained in the environmental treaties and implementation of the treaties by its decisions and resolutions should be addressed. This study is based on analysis of legal inductive. According to this method, some environmental treaties from the 1970s until today which contained the Conference of the Parties’ structure has been collected, analyzed and evaluated. After studying the opportunities and legal capacity of the "Conference of the Parties" for development of international environmental law, the result of this study showed that the environmental treaties’ Conference of the Parties have faced some gaps and limitation. In this perspective, the paper makes some recommendation to sole these gaps and limitations.

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