SOUTH PACIFIC REGIONALISM AS A DRIVER OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY – LEGAL APPROACH
SOUTH PACIFIC REGIONALISM AS A DRIVER OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY – LEGAL APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses whether the process of regionalism in the South Pacific region could be a driver of environmental policy. Implementation of legal mechanisms of environmental protection by the Pacific regional organizations is, regrettably, as weak as globally. Newly independent Oceania states, developing own meanings of imposed democracy, are not able to force execution of any kind of norms by themselves. They do need role models, advisers and supporters in maintaining global initiative, which is now combating the climate change effects. Nonetheless, unity indeed makes strength, thus the joint activities, through both soft and hard law methods, can lead the Pacific island governments to achieve their common goal. There can also be suggested a few methods of improving implementation of legal mechanisms in the South Pacific by the main drivers of regionalism, that is by intergovernmental organizations. Those, in turn, are over fragmentised and very often compete with one another.

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