Global Pact for the Environment emerged as an answer to the need for a general legal instrument on climate change which produces binding obligations. It is not just another international legal instrument which places legal obligations on state and non-state parties to address climate change. Rather, it is a novel instrument which links with national Constitutions and introduces innovative international legal principles which bind state and non-state actors as well as multinational corporations in working together towards climate change. Also, the instrument moves beyond the polluter pays principle to focus on taking precautionary measures of maintaining as well as restoring the environment. Despite the criticism of the Pact being expressed by some scholars, the Global Pact presents itself as a promising document geared to address the pressing issue of climate change.

The Global Pact for the environment: a general instrument to face climate change

domenico amirante
2019

Abstract

Global Pact for the Environment emerged as an answer to the need for a general legal instrument on climate change which produces binding obligations. It is not just another international legal instrument which places legal obligations on state and non-state parties to address climate change. Rather, it is a novel instrument which links with national Constitutions and introduces innovative international legal principles which bind state and non-state actors as well as multinational corporations in working together towards climate change. Also, the instrument moves beyond the polluter pays principle to focus on taking precautionary measures of maintaining as well as restoring the environment. Despite the criticism of the Pact being expressed by some scholars, the Global Pact presents itself as a promising document geared to address the pressing issue of climate change.
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