Dated January 2015. The Agreement entered into force for the United Kingdom on 17 December 2012. The Agreement was previously published as Miscellaneous No.2 (2012) Cm 8269 (ISBN 9780101826921). Print and web pdfs available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications Web ISBN=9781474114660

The purpose of this book is to assess the development of international environmental law in the Asia Pacific. Consideration is given to the impact upon the region of global, regional and subregional environmental law. An assessment is also undertaken of how certain states, and groups of states, have responded domestically and within their own subregions to these developments. For the purposes of this book the Asia Pacific is defined as essentially the states which comprise East and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the island states of the Southwest Pacific. Occasional consideration is also given to the states of South Asia.