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According to Dr Mostafa Tolba, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), 1988 was the year in which the environment became a ‘top issue of the world’s political agenda’. Among many pressing issues that demanded ‘broad international cooperation’ he singled out climate change as ‘the greatest environmental challenge’. Climate change, moreover, only made it ‘more urgent to take actions that we should be taking anyway to provide environmentally sound development’.1 Three interconnected assumptions underlie these observations. First, the essential link between environment and development;2 secondly, the global dimension possessed by many of these environmental issues; and lastly, the indispensability of a response grounded in concerted international action.
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United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Annual Report of the Executive Director, 1988 (Nairobi: UN Environtnental Programme, 1989) paras 3, 14 and 18.
Richard Falk, This Endangered Planet: Prospects and Proposals for Human Survival (New York: Random House, 1971).
See UNEP: Environmental Data Report, 2nd edn (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989–90) Part 10.
P. M. Dupuy, Encyclopedia of Public International Law, ed. R. Bernhardt, vol. 5 (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1983) p. 322.
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P. Envir, ‘Cleaning up the Atmosphere: the Business World’s View’, Our Planet, 2(1), (1990) p. 12.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Development Co-operation in the 1990s (Paris: OECD, 1989) p. 117.
See S. Lyster, International Wildlife Law (Cambridge: Grotius. 1985) pp. 200–2.
F. Krause, W. Bach and J. Kooney, Energy Policy in the Greenhouse (London: Earthscan, 1990).
Environmental Problems: A Global Security Threat (Iowa: Stanley Foundation, 1989) p. 24.
J. Lanuners (ed.). Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development: Legal Principles and Recommendations Adopted by the Experts Group on Environmental Law of the World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) p. 25.
L. Gundling, ‘Environment, International Protection of’, in Encyclopedia of Public International Law, ed. R. Bernhardt (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986) vol. 9, pp. 119–27, esp. p. 126.
A. Cassese, International Law in a Divided World (London: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 401.
Statement issued by participants at the Conference on ‘The Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security’, Toronto, 27–30 June 1988, para. 14; reproduced in R. Churchill and D. Freestone (eds), International Law and Global Climate Change (London: Graham & Trotman, 1991).
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Woodliffe, J. (1993). North-South Co-operation in Tackling Threats to the Global Environment: A Legal Perspective on Current Trends and Prospects. In: Carty, A., Singer, H.W. (eds) Conflict and Change in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12728-3_13
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