International Environmental Law

Dates, and . . . ? Got as far as #6. Do I need to know all of this? No. But do I know what I need to know? No. CODES: yellow = answer is a date

Award between the US & UK relating to the rights of jurisdiction of United States in the Bering’s sea & the preservation of fur seals

1893

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

1946

Trail smelter case (US v Canada)

1941

Lake Lanoux Arbitration (France v Spain)

1957

General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII), "Permanent sovereignty over natural resources"

1962

Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration)

1972

UNGA Resolution 37/7 "World Charter for Nature"

1982

World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (The Brundtland Report)

1987

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

1992

Award in the Arbitration regarding the Iron Rhine (“Ijzeren Rijn”) Railway between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

2005

Group of 77, Proposal for Principle 7 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

1992

UNGA Resolution 35/56, "International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade"

1980

Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

2002

UNGA Resolution 66/288, "The Future We Want"

2012

UNGA Resolution 70/1, "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"

2015

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

1992

Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

1997

Convention on Biological Diversity

1992

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

1994

Convention for Cooperation in the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Northeast Pacific (Antigua Convention)

2002

Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v Slovakia) Judgment ICJ

1997

Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v Uruguay) Judgment ICJ

2010

Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan New Zealand Intervening) Judgment ICJ

2014

International Group of Experts for the Pact, "Draft Global Pact for the Environment"

2017

UNGA "Gaps in International Environmental Law and Environment-Related Instruments: Towards a Global Pact for the Environment"

2018

Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, Advisory Opinion ICJ

2025