Abstract As Patricia Birnie cautiously and prophetically put it in the inaugural issue of this journal (INEA 1, January 2001, p. 74), “we do not know whether States tentative regimes they have so far established can withstand pressures globalization trade degradation over-exploitation generated by advances technologies for locating, fertilizing, harvesting, processing modifying natural resource...

Abstract A principle that prohibits States from weakening their domestic levels of environmental protection continues to emerge at varying speeds within international trade, investment and law. This article explores the principle's diverse history, rationale legal expression in each these domains finds its various articulations different treaties suffer same shortfalls deficiencies. Non-regress...

The global environment itself knows no national boundaries. The activities of states affect the global environment whether or not those activities are regulated by international law or by domestic law or both. However, every student interested in the global environment must take into account the interface between domestic and international law. This Chapter's first essay reviews the considerati...