Non compliance mechanisms in International Environmental Law

This article analyzes non compliance mechanisms in Multilateral Environmental Agreeements (MEAs): weak and strong points. It touches other issues such as the difference between the law of state responsibility and non compliance law; the rules of the law of treaties concerning breaches of international agreements and the solution provided by non-compliance mechanism; the relationship between compliance and dispute settlement; the legal status of the enabling clauses providing the power to establish a compliance committee; and the legal status of the decisions of the Conference of the Parties that usually establish a compliance committee and of the outcomes of non-compliance mechanism.