ABSTRACT
Environment protection and development are no longer anti-thesis to each other after the advent of sustainable development (SD) in the 21st century. The UN has strived to convene various international treaties to reconcile environment and development, which gained much popularity but least enforceability. The Stockholm conference is the opening international environmental treaty and successfully brought the cycle of socio-economic-envi-ronmental development to the Rio conference under the aegis of the UNGA; they hardly yielded binding international environmental law. Johannesburg and Rio+20 conferences couldn’t serve the UN mission for environment protection and SD. The MDGs couldn’t be fully realized due to ineffective parliamentary actions. The SDGs will also receive the services if parliaments are again remaining effective to enact their own action plans and schemes for execution of 17 goals and 169 targets enshrined under the SDGs.
