When Do International Treaties Matter for Domestic EnvironmentalLegislation?

Clara Brandi, Dominique Blümer and Jean-Frédéric Morin

Global Environmental Politics, 2019, vol. 19, issue 4, 14-44

Abstract: While thousands of international treaties have been concluded, it remains unclearwhether they have been implemented. This article investigates the relationshipbetween the conclusion of environment-related international treaties and theadoption of domestic environmental legislation. Thanks to data sets that areconsiderably more comprehensive and fine-grained than those previously used, wecan analyze the direct link to environmental legislation rather than the lessdirect link to environmental outcomes. Moreover, we can disaggregate forspecific environmental issue areas. Our results suggest a positive relationshipbetween domestic environmental legislation with both international environmentalagreements and preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with environmentalprovisions. This link is more robust for PTAs, mostly present in developingcountries, more pronounced before rather than after the treaties’ entryinto force, and shows significant variation depending on the issue area. Thesefindings contribute to the literature on environmental regime effectiveness andthe domestic impact of treaties.

Date: 2019
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