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… UNEP Course Series 16 2 0 1 6 International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review The articles in the present … international law’.107 What still ranked as non-binding ‘soft law’ a generation ago108 has thus ‘hardened’ into a new … effect, nevertheless attempt to find some intermediate (‘soft’ or ‘de facto’) status for such decisions. (iii) …

… in force or a binding rule of general international law, there is no over-arching international body or … or moral obligation on States to act in a certain manner (soft law). Over the last 30 years there has been a great … States may decide that an issue is better addressed by a soft law instrument. In such case, they may use one of the …