ABSTRACT
The specifi c area of international law relating to climate change is international environmental law which is of recent origin. While certain areas of international law, such as the law of the sea and the law of war, are centuries old, international environmental law had its origins in the 1970s, when countries gathered for the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. From this emerged a Declaration containing 26 principles and an action plan including 109 recommendations.1
