The Role of the United Nations in the Emergence, Configuration and Evolution of (International) Environmental Law

Abstract

Over the past 50 years, the United Nations (UN) has established itself as the main promoter on the international scene of environmental issues, both from a political point of view, and especially from a legal point of view. , by defining common regimes, at the global level, either in the form of customary norms or through extensive conventional developments. Thus, we can say that the role played and the fundamental contribution of the United Nations in the development of international environmental law, or even in the recognition and development of environmental law, in general, as a branch distinct from law, can be explained both by the particularities of the field of reference and by the valences assumed by this organization since its foundation, which are just as valid today.