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Over the past three decades, a series of international treaties have entered into force to address pressing global concerns - social and economic development and environmental protection. New regimes on climate change, biodiversity and biosafety, desertification, agriculture and seeds, trade and investment liberalization have been established to implement global commitments related to sustainable development, many with nearly universal membership. Successful domestic implementation of these international treaty regimes is one of the most significant challenges facing international law today. Although much has been written on the content and form of treaty law, there is relatively little that examines the transition from international legal theory and treaty texts to domestic regulation and practice. This new series of books addresses this need. It provides a serious contribution to ongoing global debates by conducting a detailed analysis of how myriad new treaty regimes covering the most pressing concerns of the future can be made to work in practice.

  • General Editors: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, University of Cambridge Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Markus W. Gehring, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, University of Ottowa

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9 results in Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development

Indigenous Peoples Inspiring Sustainable Development
  • Implementing UNDRIP through International Law and Covenants
  • Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Wayne Garnons-Williams
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    June 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2025
  • Based on nearly a decade of collaboration by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous legal experts and researchers, Indigenous Peoples Inspiring Sustainable Development amplifies the guidance and wisdom of Indigenous knowledge and law, as reflected in First Nations treaties with countries. It explores the potential of these covenants to guide sustainable development opportunities in the context of evolving international and domestic legal regimes. Through comparative legal research and contextualized examples across diverse communities' and countries' accords, the volume uncovers whether and how the principles, provisions and practices of Indigenous treaties can strengthen efforts to address pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges. Through cutting-edge insights and stories, the authors analyse how implementation of these treaties could foster, rather than frustrate, efforts to advance the global Sustainable Development Goals by upholding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development
  • Edited by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, David Andrew Wardell, Alexandra Harrington
  • Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023
  • Saving endangered species presents a critical and increasingly pressing challenge for conservation and sustainability movements, and is also matter of survival and livelihoods for the world's poorest and vulnerable communities. In 1973, a global Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was adopted to stem the extinction of many species. In 2015, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 15) the United Nations called for urgent action to protect endangered species and their natural habitats. This volume focuses on the legal implementation of CITES to achieve the global SDGs. Activating interdisciplinary analysis and case studies across jurisdictions, the contributors analyse the potential for CITES to promote more sustainable development, proposing international and national regulatory innovations for implementing CITES. They consider recent innovations and key intervention points along flora and fauna value chains, advancing coherent recommendations to strengthen CITES implementation, including through the regulation of trade in endangered species globally and locally.

Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation
  • Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions
  • Edited by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Marcel Szabó, Alexandra R. Harrington
  • Published online:
    15 October 2021
    Print publication:
    15 July 2021
  • Economic, technological, social and environmental transformations are affecting all humanity, and decisions taken today will impact the quality of life for all future generations. This volume surveys current commitments to sustainable development, analysing innovative policies, practices and procedures to promote respect for intergenerational justice. Expert contributors provide serious scholarly and practical discussions of the theoretical, institutional, and legal considerations inherent in intergenerational justice at local, national, regional and global scales. They investigate treaty commitments related to intergenerational equity, explore linkages between regimes, and offer insights from diverse experiences of national future generations' institutions. This volume should be read by lawyers, academics, policy-makers, business and civil society leaders interested in the economy, society, the environment, sustainable development, climate change, and other law, policy and practices impacting all generations.

Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets
  • Edited by Damilola S. Olawuyi
  • Published online:
    05 March 2021
    Print publication:
    04 March 2021
  • Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets analyses the topical and contentious issue of the critical intersections between local content requirements (LCRs) and the implementation of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, South America, Australasia and the Middle East While LCRs generally aim to boost domestic value creation and economic growth, inappropriately designed LCRs could produce negative social, human rights and environmental outcomes, and a misalignment of a country's fiscal policies and global sustainable development goals. These unintended outcomes may ultimately serve as disincentive to foreign participation in a country's energy market. This book outlines the guiding principles of a sustainable and rights-based approach – focusing on transparency, accountability, gender justice and other human rights issues – to the design, application and implementation of LCRs in global energy markets to avoid misalignments.

Children's Rights and Sustainable Development
  • Interpreting the UNCRC for Future Generations
  • Edited by Claire Fenton-Glynn
  • Published online:
    12 April 2019
    Print publication:
    18 April 2019
  • Children often fare the worst when communities face social and environmental changes. The quality of food, water, affection and education that children receive can have major impacts on their subsequent lives and their potential to become engaged and productive citizens. At the same time, children often lack both a private and public voice, and are powerless against government and private decision-making. In taking a child rights-based approach to sustainable development, this volume defines and identifies children as the subjects of development, and explores how their rights can be respected, protected and promoted while also ensuring the economic, social and environmental sustainability of our planet.

Sustainable Development, International Aviation, and Treaty Implementation
  • Edited by Armand L.C. de Mestral, P. Paul Fitzgerald, Md. Tanveer Ahmad
  • Published online:
    22 August 2018
    Print publication:
    06 September 2018
  • In 1944 the Chicago Convention set out the foundations of public international law regulating international air transport, but until 2016 no international agreement existed to limit its environmental impact. Sustainable Development, International Aviation, and Treaty Implementation explains why the CORSIA scheme, adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 2016, should be implemented in 2020 even though the adequacy of this scheme is still open to doubt and criticism. This book seeks to examine the many dimensions of the effort to contain greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in a manner consonant with the principles of sustainable development, and examines the development of international law and policy in an area that has remained largely outside the general framework of international environmental law. International civil aviation is a significant polluter of the atmosphere, and in this volume, a group of air law and sustainable development law specialists considers how the international community can respond.

NAFTA and Sustainable Development
  • History, Experience, and Prospects for Reform
  • Edited by Hoi L. Kong, L. Kinvin Wroth
  • Published online:
    05 September 2015
    Print publication:
    07 August 2015
  • The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its companion agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), provide important and often underappreciated protection for the environmental laws of the Party states: Canada, Mexico, and the United States. On the twentieth anniversary of NAFTA's ratification, this book assesses the current state of environmental protection under those agreements. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and regulators from all three Party states, it outlines the scope and process of NAFTA and NAAEC, their impact on specific environmental issues, and paths to reform. It includes analyses of the impact of the agreements on such matters as bioengineered crops in Mexico, assessment of marine environmental effects, potential lessons for China, climate change, and indigenous rights. Together, the chapters of this book represent an important contribution to the global conversation concerning international trade agreements and sustainable development.

Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation
  • Edited by Sébastien Jodoin, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
  • Published online:
    05 June 2013
    Print publication:
    24 June 2013
  • Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation provides a serious and timely perspective on the relationship between two important and dynamic fields of international law. Comprising chapters written by leading academics and international lawyers, this book examines how the principles and practices of international criminal law and sustainable development can contribute to one another's elaboration, interpretation and implementation. Chapters in the book discuss the potential and limitations of international criminalization as a means for protecting the basic foundations of sustainable development; the role of existing international crimes in penalizing serious forms of economic, social, environmental and cultural harm; the indirect linkages that have developed between sustainable development and various mechanisms of criminal accountability and redress; and innovative proposals to broaden the scope of international criminal justice. With its rigorous and innovative arguments, this book forms a unique and urgent contribution to current debates on the future of global justice and sustainability.

Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • Edited by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Frederic Perron-Welch, Christine Frison
  • Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    28 January 2013
  • This book, the first in a series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at national and international levels. The volume provides a serious contribution to the current legal and political academic debates on biosafety by discussing key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety, and analyzing progress in the development of domestic regulatory regimes for biosafety. In the year of the fifth UN Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, at the signature of a new Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol on Liability and Redress, this timely book examines developments in biosafety law and policy.