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3 CJEL 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/chjevl3 and id is 1 raw text is: (tI CHINESE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL BRILL LAW 3 (2019) 1-9 NIJIH OFF brill.com/cjel Editorial The first few months of 2O9 have seen further developments in several impor- tant areas, internationally with regard to the Global Pact for the Environment and the Paris Agreement, and nationally concerning movements in climate change litigation, as well as broader law and policy developments. As part of a Resolution on negotiating the Global Pact for the Environment, passed in May 2o18, the UN General Assembly commissioned a report by the UN Secretary General on 'Gaps in International Environmental Law and Environment-Related Instruments: Towards A Global Pact for the Environment'.1 That report, issued in November 2018,2 reviewed and analysed the corpus of in- ternational environmental law and environment-related instruments as well as the governance structure and implementation of international environmental law. It revealed gaps and deficiencies at multiple levels.3 The report set out a number of detailed findings. In summary, they were that 'there is no single overarching normative framework that sets out what might be characterized as the rules and principles of general application in international environmen- tal law' and that 'international environmental law is piecemeal and reactive. It is characterized by fragmentation and a general lack of coherence and synergy among a large body of sectoral regulatory frameworks'. The Report also found that 'the articulation between multilateral environmental agreements and environment-related instruments remains problematic owing to the lack of clarity, content-wise and status-wise, of many environmental principles'. With regard to the structure of international environmental governance, the report characterized it 'by institutional fragmentation and a heterogeneous set of ac- tors, revealing important coherence and coordination challenges' and that '[i] nternational courts and tribunals often stress the lack of international consen- sus concerning environmental principles'. Finally, with regard to implementa- tion of international environmental law, the Report noted that this is I UNGA, Res 72/277 Towards a Global Pact for the Environment (to May 2018) UN Doc A/ RES/72/277, para 1; see 'Editorial' CJEL 2 (2018) 127. 2 UN A/73/419 (30 November 2018) UN Doc A/73/419 (also published in Chinese: [J T FJq$L fF1 -4q W 'fl9 @ 4t $. i } ) https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/ 20.500.11822/27070. 3 Ibid 1. (D BEN BOER, ROWENA CANTLEY-SMITH AND QIN TIANBAO, 2019 1 DOI:10.1163/24686042-12340033 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

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