RESPONSIBILITY WITH SOVEREIGNTY IN PROTECTION OF FORESTS : Striking a Balance between Global Approach to Protection

Abstract

In international environmental law, forest law is often perceived as undeveloped area of law. Major threats posed from multidimensional environmental crisis facing planet earth and the humanity: climate change, loss of forest biodiversity, deforestation, and environmental degradation have been evident due to unbinding, unprincipled and uncoordinated nature of forest law; and represent a significant pressure on the world’s community of states. Because of the growing concerns about the consequences of such environmental crisis on human life, and health as well as the environment on its own sake, there have been wide spread legal attempt to clarify and articulate the underpinning values and objectives of international forest policies which can grace the road to further development of binding international forest law.