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Focusing on the Good or the Bad: What Can International Environmental Law do to Accelerate the Transition Towards a Green Economy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner*
Affiliation:
United Nations Environment Programme
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Eleventh Annual Grotius Lecture
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 103 , 2009 , pp. 3 - 14
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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5 UNEP, A Global Green New Deal (Feb. 2009), available at http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/.

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12 See DOHA Declaration, WT/MIN(01)/Dec/1 (Nov. 20, 2001).

13 Pascal Lamy, Address at the Informal Trade Ministers’ Dialogue on Climate Change in Bali (Dec. 2007), available at http://www.WTO.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl83_e.htm.

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15 See Gordon Brown, Address on Climate Change (Nov. 19, 2007), available at http://www.numberlO.gov.uk/Page13791.

16 Louis Schwartz, China ‘s New Generation: Driving Domestic Development, Renewable Energy World.com (Mar. 10, 2009), http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/03/chinas-new-generation-driving-domestic-development.

17 UNEP, supra note 2.

18 UNEP, Global Green New Deal Policy Brief Launched in Run Up to Crucial G20 Meeting (Mar. 9, 2009), available at http://www.grida.no/ne’ws/press/3544.aspx.

19 Id.

20 See G.A. Res. A/RES/53/242 (Aug. 10, 1999).

21 This raises the related question of what a future country-responsive system of international environmental governance would look like.