Abstract: Following the adoption of sustainable Development goals (SDGs) and policies at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in 2015, it is imperative to formulate ways to apply the numerous and divers international environmental laws as tools for their actualization. The effort here therefore is to explore how environmental law can be used as instrument for the actualization of the SDGs and policies. Rules and principles of public international community may cooperate, establish norms of behaviour and, resolve their differences. Some of the rules of customary international law as well as the emerging principles which have been adopted as principles establishing standards of international environmental law by virtue of usage over time shall be topical in this work. This will be measured with the desire to realize the sustainable development vision and program as proposed by the United Nations to safeguard our environment, not only for the present generation but, for the future generations.
Keywords: sustainable Development goals (SDGs), The United General Assembly (UNGA).
Title: How Can Environmental Law Be Used As an Instrument for Translating Sustainable Development Policies and Goals into Action
Author: BARRISTER (MRS) CELINE U. OKEAHIALAM
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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