{"id":1207,"date":"2012-06-02T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/06\/02\/icesdg2012\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:23:47","slug":"icesdg2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/icesdg2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Institutions for the 21st Century &#8211; An International Environmental Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/ICE Coalition FINAL.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px dotted #ffc944; float: left;\" alt=\"ICE-Coalition-FINAL-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/sf\/images\/stories\/ICE-Coalition-FINAL-1.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"126\" \/><\/a> <strong><br \/>By ICE Coaltion <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This  paper makes the case for the establishment of an International Court  for the Environment (ICE). It argues that a Court is necessary for two  main reasons \u2013 firstly to play a role in enforcing international  environmental law as enshrined in Multilateral Environmental Agreements  (MEAs). Secondly to create a global legal institution that would be  equipped to hear technical scientific evidence that is common to  environmental cases, and to deliver justice for non-State actors.<\/p>\n<p>It  is envisaged that the ICE would become the principal court dealing with  international environmental law, helping to clarify existing treaties  and other international environmental obligations for states and for all  other parties including trans-national corporations. It would do this  through dispute resolution, advisory opinions, and the adjudication of  contentious issues presently unclear or unresolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ICE Coaltion This paper makes the case for the establishment of an International Court for the Environment (ICE). It argues that a Court is necessary for two main reasons \u2013 firstly to play&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdgthinkpieces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}