International Law on Sustainable Development
( Inactive )Committee formed May 2003.
Mandate
The objective of the Committee is to study the legal status and legal implementation of sustainable development. For this purpose the Committee’s mandate includes:
- assessment of the legal status of principles and rules of international law in the field of sustainable development, with particular reference to the ILA New Delhi Principles (now also published as UN Doc. A/57/329), as well as assessment of the practice of States and international organizations in this field,
- the study of developing States in a changing global order, particularly the impact of globalization on the sustainable development opportunities of developing countries,
- in the light of the principle of integration and interrelationship, a re-examination of certain topics of the international law of development, including analysis of (i) the position of the least developed countries in international law, (ii) the right to development and (iii) the obligation to co-operate on matters of social, economic and environmental concern.