ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an effort to explain how genuinely compliance with International Environmental Law plays out in contemporary international society. Analysing compliance with IEL entails scrutinizing the main functions of the international environmental legal system. It deals with issues such as negotiations; assessment of domestic capabilities for implementation; a review of the impact and effectiveness of IEL instruments, and the availability of compliance mechanisms after an MEA comes into effect; and the enforcement of IEL provisions, including dispute settlement provisions. In examining compliance, the chapter looks into the legal divide between the global North and the global South, and the differential approaches taken by their legal approaches to IEL. The chapter discusses the regional organisations and the role they play in securing, promoting and monitoring IEL compliance. As mentioned Mary sustained a physical injury that required her to suspend psychological treatment.
