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International environmental law (sometimes, international ecological law)�is a field of international law regulating the behavior of states and international organizations with respect to the environment.� See Phillipe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law (2nd ed., Cambridge, 2003).� Core domains for international regulation include management of the world's oceans and fisheries, the polar ice caps, and the regulation of carbon and other particulate emisssions into the atmosphere.�

The main international treaties concerning the environment are:�

1. 1972 UN�Convention on the Human Environment;
2. 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which produced the Rio Declaration;
3. 1997 Kyoto Protocol, entered into force on February 16, 2005;
4. 2002 World Earth Summit