ABSTRACT
From the accounts outlined earlier in Chapter 3, an environmental regime for the transboundary haze pollution has emerged in Southeast Asia. Fulfilling the four regime elements (principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures), the ASEAN haze regime is constituted by the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. As the backbone of the regime, the agreement contains a number of imprecise and shallow provisions and other significant arrangements arising from the 1995 Cooperation Plan on Transboundary Pollution and the 1997 Regional Haze Action Plan – a declaratory agreement or a non-binding pledge among ASEAN leaders.
