Implementing international environmental law in Germany and China / edited by Tao Zhenghua and Rudiger Wolfrum.

Presentations from the Sino-German Symposium on Environmental Law: National Implementation, Monitoring, Compliance, International Enforcement held Sept. 21-22, 1999 in Beijing, China.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

China's sustainable development strategy and international cooperation on environment / Zhang Kunim and Wang Can -- Enforcing international environmental law: a German and European perspective on national implementation / Eberhard Schmidt-Abmann -- The convention on biodiversity: obligations and enforcement mechanisms / Rudiger Wolfrum -- Perspectives on wildlife conservation: a critical assessment of the relevant international treaties and EC instruments / Ulrich Beyerlin -- Forest Policy, law and public participation in China / Wang Xi -- The protection of marine living resources - the 1995 agreement on straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks / Doris Konig -- UN Convention to combat desertification, and prevention and control of desertification in China / Tao Zhenghua -- International protection of the soil / Rudiger Wolfrum -- Tradable emission certificates as a mechanism for national compliance under the UNFCCC / Michael Bothe -- The Kyoto protocol to the convention on climate change: commitments, implementations, and mechanisms / Liu Zhenmin -- Implementation of the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes in the European Community and Germany: Improvement or impediment of its enforcement? / Harald Hohmann -- Implementation of the Basel Convention in China / Bie Tao -- The relation between international agreements for the protection of the environment and the GATT / Nele Matz -- Settlement of disputes over TREMs in the WTO, and environmental challenges to China's foreign trade / Zhang Ruosi.