Unit 2: The Legal System Within The UK |
2.3 Introduction to International Environmental Law
Environmental pollution is an international problem. Domestic environmental law must
take stock of international law imposed by treaty obligations and the significance of
certain organisations. The joining in 1972 by the UK to the European Community (EC) has
invariably meant that the UK has had to observe and follow EC law which has been primarily
enforced by international law, upon developing it's own environmental law. This Common
Inheritance gives the framework of UK policy and in it is stated that the threat of
pollution: |
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can only be overcome if all nations work together. One country's pollution can be every country's predicament. | |
The major sources defining international law are:
Further Reading |