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North-South Co-operation in Tackling Threats to the Global Environment: A Legal Perspective on Current Trends and Prospects

In: Conflict and Change in the 1990s

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  • John Woodliffe

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According to Dr Mostafa Tolba, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), 1988 was the year in which the environment became a ‘top issue of the world’s political agenda’. Among many pressing issues that demanded ‘broad international cooperation’ he singled out climate change as ‘the greatest environmental challenge’. Climate change, moreover, only made it ‘more urgent to take actions that we should be taking anyway to provide environmentally sound development’.1 Three interconnected assumptions underlie these observations. First, the essential link between environment and development;2 secondly, the global dimension possessed by many of these environmental issues; and lastly, the indispensability of a response grounded in concerted international action.

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  • John Woodliffe, 1993. "North-South Co-operation in Tackling Threats to the Global Environment: A Legal Perspective on Current Trends and Prospects," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anthony Carty & H. W. Singer (ed.), Conflict and Change in the 1990s, chapter 13, pages 219-235, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12728-3_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12728-3_13
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