Norms and principles of international environmental law as a national environmental education element

Abstract

The objective of the study is to substantiate the necessity of studying the basics of international environmental law within the framework of national environmental education courses at all levels and profiles of the educational system, including school. The research methodology is based on the use of such methods as abstraction and concretisation, analysis and synthesis, induction, and deduction. The acquisition by students of knowledge of the basics of international environmental law, as it seems, will allow them to get an idea in a concise and capacious form about the most important achievements of mankind in the sphere of legal regulation of relations formed in the process of environmental protection and nature use, about the main environmental challenges facing mankind, about the key terms of environmental law, a universal legal language understandable to lawyers of all countries of the world, about the mechanism of implementation of the norms of international environmental law. The inclusion of information on international environmental law in educational courses will help to form a developed environmental legal consciousness among the younger generation and promote responsible environmental behaviour in the future.