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2 Rev. Eur. Comp. & Int'l Envtl. L. iv (1993)

handle is hein.journals/reel2 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 2 Number I During the past year, the Review of European Com- munity and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) has made an important contribution to better understanding and appreciation of the role of environmental law in achieving sustainable development goals. The publication has targeted legal aspects of the key issues of trade and environ- ment, energy production and use, conservation and sustainable use of the planet's biological diversity, mitigation of climate change, and the process and outcome of UNCED. International environmental law has been rapidly developing over the past two decades since the seminal 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. UNEP has played a widely recognized catalytic role in this process. The international agreements to protect marine environment and the ozone layer, to control hazardous wastes, as well as the recently concluded Convention on Biological Diversity are only some of the success stories engi- neered by UNEP. Agenda 21, adopted by the 1992 Rio Summit, specifically emphasized the UNEP mandate in the field of international environmental law. UNEP's upcoming activities in the present de- cade are based on the long-term programme for the development and periodic review of environmental law and involve such areas as toxic chemicals man- agement, protection of marine environment, environmental impact assessment, and environ- mental emergencies. Building on what has already been achieved, UNEP is ready to play its part in the system-wide UN efforts to implement and encour- age sustainable development. Negotiating a Desert- ification Convention and implementing the Conven- tion on Climate Change can be cited as areas where UNEP can contribute with its resources and expert- ise. The world community is facing unprecedented environmental and developmental challenges which require concerted action. The overriding pri- ority is implementing sustainable development. To strengthen its input into this collective effort, RECIEL should not only continue to pursue the pol- icy of addressing the most critical issues in environmental law, but should also discuss the implementation and effectiveness of the existing legal instruments. I believe that, in its first year of existence, RECIEL has made an impressive start and has laid the foundation for it to become a widely recognized and authoritative publication. Elizabeth Dowdeswell Executive Director United Nations Environment Programme C Basil Blackwell Ltd. 1993, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 l)F, UK and 238 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. iv Preface

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