Contemporary International Law and global environmental problems: towards global environmental citizenship

Abstract

From the perspective of legal sciences and, in particular, international environmental law, this intervention addresses the emergence of contemporary international law and turns to the ideas of soft cosmopolitanism and global constitutionalism, as philosophical-legal debates that could be a substrate of formal sources of creation of international rules to address global environmental problems. In this sense, the emergence and recognition of the human right to a healthy and healthy environment is addressed as an autonomous and enforceable human right, from its substantive and instrumental dimension, which can be seen as the embryo of a global environmental citizenship.