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IV. Grammar focus

1. Copy out adjectives from the text and tick off their suffixes.

2. Make up sentences according to the model.

Model: gas/ The/ of/ dust/ and/ into/ atmosphere/ returns/ the/ to/ form/ discharge/ Earth/ in/./ the/ of/ acid/ the/ rains/ – The discharge of dust and gas into the atmosphere returns to the Earth in the form of acid rains.

1. The/divided/on/law/and/the/property/natural/into/state/resources/,/municipal/ is /private/ property.

2. variety /and /wide /materials /the /alter /of /synthetic /biosphere /numerous /A /industrial /.

3 procedural/ ./ As/ the/ subject/ environmental/ a/ law/ possesses/ legal/ substantial/ its/ and/ parts/

V. Speaking

1. Work in group:

  • Discuss what are the aspects of urgent addressing in the environmental law? Use key words (resources, rational use, to regulate, the revival, the amelioration, to alter, the pollution, the conservation).

  • What is the main aim of the environmental law? What environmentally harmful consequences do you know?

  • Why is conservation so important nowadays?

  • Explain in other words what pollution is.

  • How do you understand the main principles of the environmental law?

  • Explain the difference between: subjects and objects of the environmental law?

  1. Speak on the following:

  • What do you think about the possibility to have a healthy and industrialized environment in the same time?

  • What standards are more important for you – the standard of living or the quality of life?

Unit 5 Environmental Law

Section 2 International Environmental Law

I. LEAD-IN

1. Answer the following questions:

What do you know about the public international law?

What branches of public international law can you name?

2. Match the following English words and expressions with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1

human impact

A

модернізувати

2

Plethora

B

шкода

3

to update

C

людський вплив

4

Damage

D

багатство

TEXT 2

Read the text to understand what information is of primary importance or new for you.

International environmental law:

Notes on the text:

United Nations Convention on the Human Environment (UNCHE)

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)

the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)

the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The preservation of environment and its protection from pollution has recently assumed global proportions. The growth of international environmental issues is reflected in the large body of principles and rules of international environmental law. As a result of a complex interplay between governments, non-governmental actors and international organizations, many treaties and international acts have appeared since the second half of the nineteenth century. (The table of treaties and others international acts is given in the references [№ 2: xix-xl]).

International environmental law has evolved over at least four distinct periods. It reflects developments in scientific knowledge, the application of new technologies and understanding of their impacts, changes in political consciousness and the changing structure of the international legal order and institutions. The first period began with bilateral treaties in the nineteenth century and concluded with the creation of the new international organisations in 1945. The second period commenced with the creation of the UN and culminated with the UN Conference on Human Environment, held in Stockholm in June 1972. The third period ran from the 1972 Stockholm Conference and concluded with UNCED in June 1992. The fourth period may be characterised as the period of integration: when environmental concerns are recognized as a matter of international law and policy.

The international environmental law is the body of international law that concerns the protection of the global environment. It is originally associated with the principle that states must not permit the use of their territory in such a way as to injure the territory of other states. International environmental law has since been expanded by a plethora of legally-binding international agreements. These encompass a wide variety of issue-areas, from terrestrial, marine and atmospheric pollution through to wildlife and biodiversity protection.

International environmental law derives its content from four main sources: 1) International agreements (also called treaties, conventions, international legal instruments, pacts, protocols, covenants); 2) Customary international law; 3) General principles of law; 4) Other/ new sources (e.g., court decisions (case-law), resolutions, declarations, doctrine, recommendations given by world organizations etc.).

The majority of the conventions relating to international environmental law are specific; that means that they deal directly with environmental issues. Protocols are like mini-agreements that "hang off" the main treaty. They are especially useful in the environment field, where they can be used to update scientific knowledge. Protocols are generally much easier to generate than a treaty and they can enter into force very quickly. The most widely-known protocol in international environmental law is the Kyoto Protocol. Customary international law represents the norms and rules that countries follow as a matter of custom and they are so prevalent that they bind all states in the world. International environmental law also includes the opinions of international courts and tribunals. The courts include: the International Court of Justice (ICJ); the Law of the Sea Court; the European Court of Justice; regional treaty tribunals.

International environmental law is heavily influenced by a collection of organizing principles. The chief guiding principle is that states have sovereignty (full power) over their natural resources and the responsibility not to cause environmental damage. All other international environmental law principles evolved with this principle in the background. The principle of good neighbourliness and international co-operation; the principle of preventive action; the precautionary principle; the polluter-pays principle; the principle of sustainable development (WSSD) – integration of environmental protection and economic development; the principle of environmental procedural rights and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, are among them.

A new programme area has been agreed by the UNEP Legal Experts Group. The main purpose of this programme is to promote public awareness, education, information and public participation, including the development of natural rules, laws and standards.

II. DEVELOPMENT

1. Find in the text the information on

a) the periods of the international environmental law

b) its main sources

c) the international environmental law principles

2. Complete the following sentences according to the information from the text:

1. The growth of international environmental issues is reflected in … .

2. International environmental law has since been expanded by … .

3. The chief guiding principle is … .

4. The most widely-known protocol in international environmental law is … .

5. Ecological interdependence and international co-operation explain … .

3. Read the text below. Copy out the underlined word combinations from it and give their Ukrainian equivalents:

UNCED reflect the growing range of economic activities which subject to international legal regulation. UNCED agreed environmental priorities which were essentially divided into two categories: those relating to the protection of various environmental media, and those relating to the regulation of particular activities or products. The first category constitute: protection of the atmosphere, in particular by climate change, ozone depletion and ground level and transboundary air pollution; protection of land resources; halting deforestation; conservation of biological diversity; protection of freshwater resources; and protection of oceans and seas (including coastal areas) and marine living resources. The second category of major issues identified products of human technological and industrial innovation which are considered to be harmful to the environment constitute the management of: biotechnology; toxic chemicals, including their international trade; agricultural practice; hazardous wastes, including their international trade; solid wastes and sewage-related issues; and radioactive wastes [from references № 2: p.10, 1995,].

4. Tell about features causing the deterioration of environment.

5. Please, give your explanation of the following problems:

1) the origin of environmental problems facing humanity nowadays;

2) modern ways of their elimination.

III. PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE

1. Make up а dialogue:

A: Say that a number of measures must be taken to stop air pollution.

B: Answer that a lot of anti-pollution measures are taken by governments of many countries throughout the world.

A: Reply that air pollution is much worse in Western countries.

B: Answer that this is true but it is also a big problem in Ukraine because of Chernobyl disaster.

A: Add that air pollution is spreading much more in big industrial and overpopulated cities such as in Kharkiv, Zaporizhiya, Donetsk.

B: Tell that environmental problems also take place in outer space. There are three types of them: orbital space debris; environmental damage caused on or to other planets as a result of human exploratory activity; and environmental damage caused on the Earth as a result of man-made objects of outer space.

A: Ask to explain your interlocutor what does “space debris” mean.

B: Explain that it constitutes an environmental hazard as it increases the risk of collision and consequential damage; because of the high speed at which they travel, objects as small as one centimeter can penetrate the crew compartments of spacecrafts, and debris one-half millimeter in size can kill an astronaut protected only by a spacesuit.

2. Situation: you are at the European symposium devoted to the Atmosphere and Freshwater resources Protection. Make up and dramatize you own dialogue between the fighters for Conservation. Use the terms and notions:

  • urban pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, outer space; customary law and regional rules, UNCED, ECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols;.

  • the protection of the marine environment, pollution, dumping by vessels at sea, offshore vessels, seabed activities, coastal zones, global deterioration in the quality of the marine environment, destruction of habitats, eutrophication from nutrients and sewage, UNCLOS, UNEP REGIONAL Seas Programme, OSPAR Marine Pollution Convention.

[You can obtain additional information in Philippe Sand.’s Principles of international environmental law І, 1995 (the references № 2:): chapters 7, 9 and 11, p. 243-287; 346-366, 456-491].

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