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The Montevideo Environmental Law Programme
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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The Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will hold its next annual meeting in May 1993, and, among other matters, will consider the report of a group of government experts (the report or Nairobi report) on the review, and continuation for another decade, of its Montevideo Programme of environmental law. This program was adopted by the Governing Council of UNEP in 1982 and has been instrumental in the development of domestic and international environmental law during the last decade.
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References
1 UN Doc. UNEP/ENV.LAW/2-2/L.2 (1992).
2 Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law— 1981–1991, adopted by UNEP’s Governing Council on May 31, 1982, by Decision 10/21. The decision approved the report of a group of experts that met in Montevideo, Uruguay, from October 28 to November 6, 1981.
3 UNEP Governing Council Decision 16/23 (May 31, 1991).
4 Iwona Rummel-Bulska, Review of the 1981 Montevideo Programme (October-November, 1991, Rio de Janeiro), 2 Y.B. Int’l Envt’l L. 391 (1991).
5 The report of the first session appears in UN Doc. UNEP/ENV.LAW/2/3 (1991).
6 The UNCED meeting held in Rio de Janeiro, June 3–14, 1992, is known as the Earth Summit.
7 See UN Doc. A/47/598 (1992) on institutional arrangements to follow up on UNCED.
8 Agenda 21 is a plan of action for sustainable development adopted by UNCED on June 14, 1992. Its text appears in UN Doc. A/CONF.151/26 (3 vols. 1992).
9 UNEP Governing Council Decision 13/18, sec. II (May 24, 1985).
10 See Rummel-Bulska, supra note 4, at 391.
11 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, Mar. 22, 1985, UN Doc. UNEP/1G.53/Rev.1, reprinted in 26 ILM 1529 (1987) (entered into force Sept. 22, 1988).
12 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, Sept. 19, 1987, reprinted in 26 ILM at 1550 (entered into force Jan. 1, 1989).
13 UNEP Environmental Law and Institutions Unit, Review of the Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law 1981–1991, at 7 (1991) [hereinafter Review].
14 Rummel-Bulska, supra note 4, at 384.
15 See UNEP Governing Council Decision 14/30 (June 17, 1987) (approving Cairo Guidelines).
16 Mar. 22, 1989, reprinted in 28 ILM 649 (1989).
17 Review, supra note 13, at 12.
18 Convention on Biodiversity, done June 5, 1992, reprinted in 31 ILM 818 (1992).
19 Framework Convention on Climate Change, done May 9, 1992, reprinted in 31 ILM at 849.
20 The Global Environment Facility was established by Resolution 91-5 of the Executive Directors of the World Bank.
21 Global Environment Facility, The Pilot Phase and Beyond 9, para. 2.21 (Working Paper Series No. 1, 1992).
22 See note 11 supra.
23 See note 12 supra.
24 This Convention, supra note 18, was opened for signature in Rio de Janeiro on June 5, 1992.
25 This Convention, supra note 19, was opened for signature in Rio de Janeiro on June 5, 1992.
26 See note 16 supra.
27 The London Guidelines (amended) were approved by UNEP Governing Council Decision 15/30 (May 25, 1989).
28 UN Doc. A/46/405 (1991).
29 Adopted in Helsinki, Mar. 17, 1992, reprinted in World Treaties for the Protection of the Environment 132 (Tullio Scovazzi & Tullio Treves eds., 1992).
30 See note 9 supra.
31 Opened for signature Dec. 10, 1982, reprinted in Official Text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea with Annexes and Index, UN Sales No. E.83.V.5 (1983).
32 id.