Global Pact for the Environment
The Global Pact for the Environment is a proposed international treaty that seeks to enhance environmental protection worldwide. Its purported goal is to render principles of environmental law binding and enforceable.
The Global Pact project was launched in 2017 by a network of experts known as the "International Group of Experts for the Pact". It is made of more than a hundred legal experts in environmental law and is chaired by former COP21 President Laurent Fabius.
The project was subject to negotiations at the United Nations General Assembly and at the United Nations Environment Assembly between May 2018 and August 2019. Pursuant to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 73/333, which concluded the initial stage of negotiations on the Global Pact, the United Nations Environment Assembly is schedule to "prepare, at its fifth session, in February 2021, a political declaration for a United Nations high-level meeting, subject to voluntary funding, in the context of the commemoration of the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm from 5 to 16 June 1972 ".
