Dr. Ram ManoharLohiya National Law University, Lucknow B.A., LL.B. (Hons.

Environmental Law
Synopsis
Law and Global Environment management in existing International Environmental Regime

Submitted to Ms. DeepikaUrmaliya Faculty of Law.

Submitted by Ashutosh Mani Roll No. 34 Section A 7th Semester

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

The scope of this project is to study about the current issues trending in the context of International Environmental Law and the most prominent among them are the following1. Ozone depletion 2. Damage to environment during armed conflict 3. Trans- boundary pollution This paper is aimed at studying these topics exhaustively and the proper legal framework concerned with these topics shall also be dealt with in the later stages along with these issues.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The methodology applied for this research is exploratory and theoretical. It explores the judgments and guidelines given by the Indian courts for Environmental Protection.

Objective
The Objective of the project is to study the various problems of Enivronmental Degradation and the role of various International Conventions to protect it.

Hypothesis
The international regime for the protection of the ozone layer was established within the framework of UNEP, i.e. within an international environmental organization. Its formation was not fraught with ideological quarrels or linkages between different fields of international relations, although economic considerations, e.g. the costs and benefits of pollution abatement, played an important role. In the absence of general political considerations, the problem awareness of the actors was more closely related to the process of regime formation than in the case of long-range trans- boundary air pollution. Accordingly, the stage of regime formation extended over a shorter period of time and the borderline between the stages of regime formation and regime operation is marked less clearly than in the case of long-range trans- boundary air pollution. The empirical assessment over time of the decade-long deliberation process reveals a series of successive, minor steps of

change. Any identification of one of these steps with the transfer of the regime process from one stage into the next would be overly arbitrary.

Method
This project involves study and review of various articles and law reviews published in India as well as other online forums for public review.

Sources
The sources that have been taken up for this project are various articles published in newspapers and law reviews along with various International Conventions and Protocols by various countries to protect the Environment.

LITERATURE SURVEY
1. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND EMERGING TRENDS IN JUDICIAL RESPONSES

- Chandra Pal1, Central Law India Quarterly 2. Environmental Law D.S. Sengar - Enforcement Machinary - Environmental Issues and Judicial Trend 3. Environmental Law in India Mohammad Naseem - Judicial Remedies

TENTATIVE CHAPTERIZATION
o INTRODUCTION o OZONE DEPLETION o DAMAGE TO ENVIRONMENT DURING ARMED CONFLICT o TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION o CONCLUSION o BIBLIOGRAPHY

Faculty of Law, Kurukshetra University

CONCLUSION
During the regime formation phase, a number of interrelated claims were submitted. In a first step, the Governing Council of UNEP as a multi-purpose body was concerned with an initiative to control CFC emissions. It reacted to this claim in its resolution of 1980 recommending certain action by governments, but the sole reliance on occasional decisions of a multi-purpose body did not prove to be sufficiently effective. The Nordic initiative of 1981 to launch a permanent process of deliberations about appropriate measures to protect the ozone layer and to adopt a framework convention for this purpose was of a different nature. It did not immediately focus on substantive regulations but was intended to establish a process of deliberations and decisionmaking about such substantive regulations. The broad outline of the framework convention as proposed by the Nordic countries and as adopted by the Vienna Conference in 1985 was not designed to have an immediate impact on the state of the ozone layer.

Bibliography
1. Environmental Law D.S. Sengar 2. Environmental Law in India A.K Tiwari 3. http://envfor.nic.in/ 4. http://www.basel.int/ 5. http://www.uni-bamberg.de/ 6. http://environment.nationalgeographic.com 7. http://www.un.org 8. http://www.icrc.org