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Choosing Norms To Promote Compliance And Effectiveness: The Case For International Environmental Benchmark Standards, Richard Parker

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As the number of international environmental agreements (IEAs) continues to mount' so too does the continuing destruction of the environment by mankind. Notwithstanding the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), endangered mammals continue to be taken and traded at alarming rates. Notwithstanding the Biodiversity Convention, the global heritage of biodiversity continues to be reduced at the estimated rate of 50,000 species per year and the impact of the Biodiversity Convention on that trend has, so far, not been detectable. Notwithstanding the enumeration of countless fisheries conservation agreements, many of the fish stocks of the world are reported on …