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We live in a kaleidoscopic world in the new Anthropocene Epoch. This calls for a more inclusive public international law that accepts diverse actors in addition to States and other sources of law, including individualized voluntary commitments. Norms are critical to the stability and legitimacy of this international system. They underlie responses to rapid change, to new technological developments and to problems of protecting commons, promoting public goods, and providing social and economic justice. Certain fundamental norms can be identified ; others are emerging. The norm of mutual accountability underpins the implementation of other norms. Norms are especially relevant to frontier doit-yourself technologies, such as synthetic biology, digital currencies, cyber activity, and climate interventions, as addressed in the book. Reconceiving public international law lessens the sharp divide between public and private law and between domestic and international law

Focuses on five cases, that reflect five basic issues in the clash between trade and the environment: public health, air pollution/ozone depletion, food safety, destruction of endangered species, and biosafety. This work is suitable for those involved in international trade or environmental activism

Conserving the Earth System represents a public good, global as well local. In today's kaleidoscopic world, we must engage all the actors to cooperate with the shared goal of caring for and maintaining planet Earth in trust for present and future generations. The UN Summit of the Future is an opportunity to embark on six critical strategies: commitment to consider the future and reaffirm intergenerational equity; representation to future generations; monitoring, assessment and collection of lessons learned; scientific and technological research and development; institutional development; and education and raising of public consciousness. The financial and commercial sectors must consider the future in decision-making.