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A Common Response to a Common Concern: Integrating Solidarity in Environmental Law
From the systemic perspective of international environmental law, two general principles of environm...
Principle 10: what can we learn from its regional implementation through the Escazú Agreement?
The Escazú Agreement implements Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, adapting it to the regional ci...
Enhancing International Rule of Law through a Global Pact for the Environment
Central to the states’ survival in the face of the accelerating climate crisis will be their enhan...
Addressing Inequality to Foster Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Environmental Regimes
The 2022 Declaration must integrate concerns related to inequality between people and between states...
Green Consumption Rights Should Be Incorporated Into International Law
The combination of little corporate green responsibility and insufficiently empowered citizens is ca...
What if the Global Pact for the Environment took the form of a simple declaration: a Trojan horse for better implementation of environmental standards?
Regardless of its legal form, it is the level of adherence of States to the norm that will ultimatel...

Towards more ambition for the 2022 High-Level Declaration
Law is a driving force that makes it possible to protect the environment while maintaining the econo...
A Fifty Year Stocktaking and Achieving Transformative Change through the Rule of Environmental Law
Transformation cannot be achieved without collective action. It is essential for States to take the ...
Answering the Clarion Call for the Global Pact for the Environment
Sustainable investing is increasing - and this trend has led to more vigorous corporate action on su...

Juridical Principles to Sustain Planetary Health
2022 is the year States must find consensus about what norms are needed to attain the UN Sustainable...

A Plea for a Principled Approach to International Environmental Governance
A principled approach to environmental governance can provide the cement for a new and more united w...

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Protecting Life on Earth
Human rights can help overcome the Achilles heel of international environmental law—the absence of...