Justice and governance principal ways to achieve the sustainability of environment (legal view of Rio+20 to sustainable development)

Subject Areas : Water and Environment

Lobat Taghavi ¹ , Farhad Dabiri ² , Sobhan Tayebi ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Education, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Education, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Ph.D Student of Environmental Law, Department of Environmental Law, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch , Islamic Azad University , Tehran, Iran

Received: 2012-05-04 Accepted : 2012-08-21 Published : 2013-03-21

Keywords: Rio+20 summit, international environment, International environmental go, Sustainable development,

Abstract :

The Rio+20 summit started from June 20, 2012, was looking for specific targets on the path way ofglobal sustainable development, focusing on international environmental issues, green economy andsustainable development, and environmental good governance, etc.This great international gathering had set its working schedule based on fundamental principles ofjustice, good governance, role of law, and sustainable development, and encouraged the cooperation ofworld leaders to take a novel approach to achieve sustainable development and execution of globalgovernorship of law in 21st century.The RIO+20 was after the ways and means to achieve the principal goals , such as cooperation onprincipals of sustainable development, evaluation of activities since the first meeting held 20 yearsago, i.e. on 1992 , and the experiences gained . Attention was also made to execution of national andinternational environmental related laws, prioritization of sustainable issues, social justice, in order toachieve sustainable development.The international community must also think beyond Rio+20 and to establish a robust framework forstrengthening international environmental rules and provide effective solutions for the future withinthe context of global environmental policies. The present paper evaluates and studies the formation ofthis world wide meeting and its consequences.

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