Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on May 14th, 2005
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)
posted on SustainabiliTank.info, May 14, 2005,
This is one of two books introduced to the UN at a press conference at
the
UN Correspondents Association (UNCA), in New York, on May 12, 2005.
This volume is a compendium of reports presented November 4-6, 2003 at
the
first Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. As the UN
Secretary General mentions in his message to the inauguration of this
IUCN
Academy in Shanghai, November 4, 2005, already as part of the 1992
,Rio,
UNCED Agenda 21 there was a recommendation to strengthen environment
and
development law by establishing a network of university law departments
dedicated to progress in this area. This suggestion was then also
repeated
in 2002 at the Johannesburg Summit.
Actually, already in 1996, Nicholas Robinson, Chair of the IUCN
Commission
on Environmental Law started to work on this idea. The International
Union
for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is just a natural
locus
for this sort of activity, and IUCN Secretary-General Achim Steiner
backed
this effort making sure that there are funds available. The Shanghai
Jiao
Tong University came on board and things started happening.
The volume of 35 papers starts with a public lecture on International
Law by
Alexandre Kiss from the University of Strasbourg and President of the
European Council for Environmental Law, and is followed by a paper on
Development and Energy by the person who was most involved in the
subject
for the last 40 years, Professor Jose Goldemberg from Sao Paulo,
Brazil.
The volume has six parts - and they are:
I - Sustainable Development and the Role of Energy Law.
II - Legal Issues In Contemporary Energy Law.
III - International Energy Law.
IV - Comparative Energy Law.
V - Electricity Restructuring.
VI - Financing for Sustainable Development.
VII - Civil Society and the procedural Requirement of Energy Law for
Sustainable Development.
Academics from China and Australia seem to have been the most prolific
participants. Quite a few areas will be dealt with by
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