Multilateral Environmental Agreements Legal Status of the Secretariats [Hardcover]

This study examines the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).This study seeks to examine the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)  in-built law-making mechanisms and processes of institutionalization  and their ad hoc treaty-based status and the issue of the legal personality of their secretariats. It offers an account of the phenomenon in which an international institution provides a servicing base for an MEA that triggers a chain of legal implications involving the secretariat, the host institution, and the host country.This study seeks to examine the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)  in-built law-making mechanisms and processes of institutionalization  and their ad hoc treaty-based status and the issue of the legal personality of their secretariats. It offers an account of the phenomenon in which an international institution provides a servicing base for an MEA that triggers a chain of legal implications involving the secretariat, the host institution, and the host country.The present study seeks to examine the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)  in-built law-making mechanisms and processes of institutionalization  and their ad hoc treaty-based status and the issue of the legal personality of their secretariats. It provides legal understanding of the location of MEA secretariats within an existing international host institution, as well as discussion of the issue of relationship agreements and interpretation of the commonly used language that triggers such relationships. It places under scrutiny the standard MEA phrase providing a secretariat, delegation of authority by the host institution to the head of the convention secretariat, possible conflict areas, host country agreement, and the workings of the relationship agreements. The book offers an alÃj