![]() ![]() The relationship between humankind and nature has definitely changed “the frontiers of the natural and the artificial have become increasingly diluted and everything or almost everything, from the climate to biological diversity” seems to be “under humankind’s power” (Ost 2003, p. The Anthropocene is the “age of humans” “for the first time in our history the most serious and immediate, even existential, risks are human-made and unfolding at planetary scale” (UNDP 2020, p. We are living a new geological age characterised by the physical, chemical and biological impact of human activities on the Planet as a whole: “the Anthropocene” (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). ![]() Finally, we will stress the importance of the role of the Blue Planet Law in strengthening the environmental component of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Sect. Afterwards, we will defend the urgency of approving the Global Pact for the Environment, which is being discussed at UN level and includes a strong emphasis on the universal duty to take care of the environment and on the principles of prevention, precaution and intergenerational equity (Sect. Subsequently, we will demonstrate that the existing International Environmental Law is, for several reasons, insufficient to solve the main problems of the global ecological crisis (Sect. We will first develop the idea of a Blue Planet Law, in the context of the Anthropocene (Sect. Our text intends to contribute to overcoming the difficulties of the current international environmental law, in view of the transition towards a new environmental law clearly characterised as “global” and “future-oriented”. Therefore, a Blue Planet Law, a new Global Environmental Law, which fleshes out the ecological dimension of sustainable development, is necessary. The delicate equilibria of the whole biosphere, on which human life, health, food, and well-being depend, are at risk. One of humankind’s greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to reconcile the economic and technological development of our post-industrial societies with the prevention or mitigation of global environmental problems such as climate change, ocean degradation, and biodiversity loss.
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