ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the trends in the use of sustainable development principles in international courts and tribunals. It explains lessons from the plethora of relevant decisions in order to consider the potential for similar application of these principles in treaties and their dispute settlement, including under the compliance mechanisms of the Paris Agreement. The chapter charts a way forward for future legal scholarship and practice on sustainable development. The spectrum of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies applying the principle serves to further the principle by demonstrating the ability of sustainable development to be integrated across boundaries and subject matter. Global acceptance and application of the New Delhi Principles in international law can be observed across new or ongoing treaty law negotiations on sustainable development. Public participation, along with other sustainable development principles, has played an increasingly distinguished role in resolving disputes in international organizations.
