The role of the United Nations Organization in the development of international environmental law

Abstract

This research aims to study the role of the United Nations Organization in the development of international environmental law, through a statement most interested in international conferences to the environment, which was the United Nations preferred lead in the session and the ensuing results have contributed to the emergence of this new branch of public international law, and constitute in this frame United Nations Conference on human environment in 1972, the first UN conference contributed to the consecration of the principles and rules of international law of the environment, through a declaration Stockholm human environment, as well as the creation of UNEP, who played an important role in the implementation and financing of environmental conventions program.

As the 1992 Rio Conference format, a milestone in the development of international environmental law in the context of linking environmental development, through the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21, As a result of this latest conference opened for signature on the most important Alatagafaat on the environment including the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on Climate Change of 1992 .