Research on Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

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There is no doubt that the global environmental protection is the most important agenda in international society. Since 1972 Stockholm Human Environment Conference, it is recognized the lack of law on international environmental protection and has rapidly made treaties for the purpose of environmental protection. As a result, there are a lot of treaties of environmental protection. But these environmental treaties, general principle and so on are not quite implemented adequately. For example, some treaties do not work after all and become sleeping treaties. Since 1992 Earth Summit, it has rapidly address implementation of international environmental law, that is compliance of international environmental law. Then, the purpose of our project for three years is examination of multilateral environmental agreements whether is properly implemented in the international level and domestic level through the analysis(study) of main agreements. And also we try to theoretically and practically co … More nsider about state responsibility, international compensation, civil liability and free trade. Ultimately we seek to analyze the substance of compliance on international environmental law.On first year our project addressed compliance for setting the framework of conceptual analysis. First, we tried to identify the nature of obligation to comply with international environmental law from the point of view of hard law and soft law. Then, we deliberated policy instruments and economic instruments enhancing compliance on each dimensions and also compliance on the domestic level. On second year we especially addressed Asia-Pacific region because there are some arguments which level is effective in working on compliance with environmental law on the international (global), regional(EU, north America, south America and Asia-Pacific) and national level.As a result, we found that it is better to attempt the settlement of certain environmental problem on regional level firstly, not on global level. On last year we addressed Environment and Trade because after the study of 1999 and 2000 it emerged the need to resolve the interference with environmental protection and free trade enhancing effective compliance with environmental law. As a result, it is pointed out some problem that free trade institutions, for example WTO, are not necessarily positive with environmental protection. Less