Non-Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms and the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements

Traditional means of international dispute settlement have proved to be largely ineffective in ensuring the effectiveness of international law. Thus, states are inceasingly creating regime-specific systems to control, facilitate and assist the implementation of and compliance with each multilateral environmental agreement. By bringing togheter the perspectives of scholars, negotiators and and practitioners, this book provides a comprehensive and in-depht analysis of the most advanced of these systems, the so called " non-compliance mechanisms", in which a specialized treaty body is entrusted with the task of examining cases of non-compliance by State parties. It includes a description of each mechanism and an analysis of cross-cutting issues. It also explains how these systems relate to relevant concepts and mechanism of general international law and, for the first time, of the European Union.