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Various multilateral environmental agreements have established mechanisms to ensure compliance. Such mechanisms, often called “compliance procedures”, are aimed at fostering treaty compliance by resorting to means which are held as nonlegal. In light of this context, this article aims to analyze how compliance procedures in multilateral environmental treaties may reinforce compliance with international environmental law. Given the fact that the compliance procedure of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is held as one of the most sophisticated procedures, it is adopted as a parameter for the analysis. This paper is written based on bibliographical and document research, and resorts to descriptive and comparative analyses. To that end, this work initially provides an overview of compliance procedures and a descriptive analysis of its compliance procedure; subsequently, compliance procedures are compared to alternative solutions to breaches of international environmental law. At the end, the complementarity between compliance procedures and other mechanisms is discussed.

Book chapter on the main aspects of the works of French jurist Georges Scelle related to the theoretical aspects of international law

These notes are meant to provide an analysis of actualities through the prism of international law

Le devenir du droit international, Actes du Colloque international, Marrakech, les 12 et 13 mars 2004, Revue Marocain d'Administration Locale et de Développement