Next week, states will convene in Busan, South Korea, for the fifth – and in theory final – session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The INC was established by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in March 2022 and has been…

A major question coming out of the 2015 Paris conference was whether the Paris Agreement represented a meeting of the minds and would provide a stable framework for international cooperation on climate change going forward, or whether it papered over differences and left crucial issues unresolved.  For twenty-five years, states had engaged in an almost continuous process of…

From August 2010, Professor Daniel Bodansky will be Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics and Sustainability at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Previously, he was Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of Georgia. In 2009 and 2010 he has been a Visiting…