Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads

The Main Track of the Development of Environmental Framework Law: From the Conference on the Human Environment to the Conference on Environment and Development

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The United Nations' Conference on Human Environment launched a new era of global environmental protection; one of its significant impacts on the world is driving the emergence and promoting the development of the environment framework law. Look back to the history, two peaks appeared in the development process of national environmental framework law, the first one arises after the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the second one arises after the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. These two conferences have been able to play such an important role, because they brought together the human intelligence, put forward cross-age new ideas and new strategies for environmental protection. The history thus reveal the emergence and development of the environment framework law requires significant theoretical support; the globality and publicity of environmental issues, prompting the international cooperation in the field of environmental protection, international environmental law has a profound impact on domestic environmental law. China's environment framework law left behind other countries, but the opportunity to achieve significant development is still there from the rule of development environment framework law, the key is that we must grasp the opportunity.