Environmental law is one of the essential instruments for implementing public environmental policies with a view to sustainable development. Despite this major role, it remains poorly operational in several states, so much so that the environment continues to gradually deteriorate, despite the existence of an impressive legal arsenal.
The undeniable momentum of global environmental governance brings the thorny issue of the effectiveness of environmental law to the heart of the concerns. This issue is becoming more and more deeply rooted in academic and professional debates in environmental law, and gives rise to a number of varied analyzes seeking to qualify and quantify the degree of effectiveness of legal and legal instruments aimed at protection. of the environment.
The usefulness of legal indicators is to demonstrate the intrinsic performance of a country and not the comparative ranking between states. These results will be used to improve the effectiveness of environmental law by targeting priority legal reforms to be put in place.
By formulating a battery of legal indicators, it will later allow environmental lawyers to test and systematize this new category of indicators in the service of sustainable development objectives.
As environmental law is both national and transnational, the question of indicators is addressed in both national and international law, knowing that the concepts, processes and methods of interpretation used to assess the effectiveness are not the same.
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