Environmental international law: Particularities

Abstract

The article examines the legal tools available under international law for the environmental protection, seeking to demonstrate that there is, in formation, an International Environmental Law, which begins to be affirmed. Throughout the article the main characteristics capable of marking the peculiar position of this branch under construction of the international legal framework are analyzed. It is accepted that the International Law of the Environment is a Young Law, which, however, has been contributing with important innovations in the international legal framework. The article highlights some of these changes, for example, the modification of the concepts of responsibility and sovereignty, the wide use of principles and the gradual transformation of the subjects of Public International Law. The article also highlights the political, social and economic difficulties for the implementation and implementation of this new branch of international law.