International Environmental Law

CURRENT STATE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION From:  AZIM AZHAR BIN ZAKARIYA (237809) WAN AZIDA BINTI WAN AZIZ (242824) MUHAMMAD SALAHUDDIN BIN MD. SALLIM (238310) INTRODUCTION Current state of global environmental cooperation is a joint action between two or more actor of having shared interests or effort for a further prosperous and sustainable environmental. The cooperative is important to achieve certain goals and to sharing common interests. For an example is the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Control of Targeted Chemicals, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of Wild Fauna and Flora, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). So, in order to analyses the current states of global environmental cooperation these three approaches will be explore details. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) What is UNEP? The United Nations Environment Programme is an agency of the United Nation...

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (SOIS) GFLA3133: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW GROUP ASSIGNMENT TOPIC: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW Lecturer: Prof. Madya Dr. Ratnaria Binti Wahid PREPARED BY: NAME NO MATRIC MOHAMED ABDIAZIZ MOHAMED 237131 NURUL BASYIRAH BT ABDUL HAMID 242106 NABILA ASTRIDILLA 701627 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW BY: GROUP 11 1. NABILA ASTRIDILLA 2. NURUL BASYIRAH 3. MUHAMMAD DEK ABDIAZIZ 1. This topic basically wants to explain about the relations between environmental protection under MEA’s (Multilateral Environmental Agreement) and WTO (World Trade Organization). WTO wants to make sure the implementation about GATT article XX which is talk about WTO rules of Environmental policies. The article XX of GATT that international trade necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health. This article is one of the general exceptions of article XX of GATT....

1.0 FRESH WATER RESOURCES Water as a resource is under relentless pressure. Due to population growth, economic development, rapid urbanization, large-scale industrialization and environmental concerns water stress has emerged as a real threat. The scarcity of water for human and ecosystem uses and the deteriorating water quality leads to "water stress" and intense socio-political pressures. Many areas in the country are already under severe water stress. Any addition to the intensity of water stress in the existing water scarcity areas, or addition of new areas to water stressed list, will only further push the problem in to the realm of a disaster. Although about three-fourth of earth is water, the estimated volume of freshwater our rivers, groundwater, snow and ice, is about 2.5% only, the rest being the sea / salt water. Most of the freshwater are either in the form of ice and permanent snow cover in Antarctic/Artic regions (about 69%) or is stored underground ...

Summarise of video What we understand from the video is, the disaster of environment is not only happen from industrial activity, air pollution or toxic but it also could be happen from armed conflict. For example, when conflict happen it’s not only will affect human but also our ecosystem, flora fauna, water system, land and etc. The bombs explosion can destroy the plants and make the animals lost their habitat. So, to avoid this there are rules and law of armed conflict. With this before a state start or involve in armed conflicts, they should consider the consequence to the environment. Not only that but also there are some initiative taken by some authorities to ensure the environment. The environment does not exist as a sphere separate from human actions, ambition and needs and attempts to defend it in isolation from human concerns. Environment also need protection and also important in conflict prevention and resolution, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeepi...