International Law and Climate Change in the Process of Global Sustainable Development

Abstract

The paradigm governing international development law in the context of the historical and economic conditions of the 1960s was mainly based on economic development. However, gradually, in the light of international efforts and the issuance of the Brundtland Report, a concept called sustainable development was proposed in the scope of international law. A concept that, in the light of avoiding the mere consideration of economic development in development processes and through the interaction between the three dimensions of economic, social and environmental development, has guided international development law towards international sustainable development law. Despite the progress made in the literature on sustainable development in international law, on the one hand, because the provisions of this concept have mainly been raised in inconsistent law and, in practice, as acknowledged by important documents in this field that prioritize economic development over environmental and social development, sustainable development policies have failed, there is a significant gap in the theoretical and practical approach to sustainable development in international development law, and international sustainable development law is considered an ideal law rather than a real law.