ULUSLARARASI ÇEVRE HUKUKUNDA YUMUŞAK ARAÇLARIN ROLÜNE İLİŞKİN BİR GÖZDEN GEÇİRME

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 15 Sayı: 2, 824 - 868, 31.08.2025

Sarkawt Jalil

https://doi.org/10.32957/hacettepehdf.1672865

Öz

Bu yasal inceleme, iklim değişikliği hukukunu sertlik ve yumuşaklık açısından test etmeye çalışacaktır. Çevre yasalarının, antlaşmaların ve kuralların genel olarak ve özellikle iklim değişikliğiyle ilgili olanların çok derin ve doğrudan anlamına yaklaşmak için bir içerik analizi yöntemi kullanacaktır. Hukukun olduğu gibi bir genel görünümünü göstermek için çevresel sert ve yumuşak hukuk araçlarına örnekler sunacaktır. Ardından, ilgili iklim değişikliği kurallarını, üç sertlik unsuru açısından doğalarını bulmak için test edecektir: yükümlülük, kesinlik ve delege etme. Böyle bir hukuk sisteminin, küreselleşme ve parçalanma gibi politik ve sosyal boyutlarında mevcut dünyanın temelini yansıttığı sonucuna varacak ve iklim değişikliği hukukunun bunu başarmak için yeterli potansiyele sahip yeni bir normatiflik düzeyine ihtiyaç duyduğunu göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

İklim değişikliği , Antroposentrizm , Çevre , Sert hukuk , Yumuşak hukuk

Proje Numarası

None

A REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF SOFT INSTRUMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Öz

This legal review will attempt to test the climate change law in terms of hardness and softness. It will deploy a content analysis method in order to approach the very deep and direct meaning of the environmental laws, treaties, and rules in general and those related to climate change in particular. It will present examples of environmental hard and soft law instruments to show an overview of the law as it is. Then it will accordingly test the relevant climate change rules to find out their nature in terms of the three elements of hardness: obligation, precision, and delegation. It will conclude that such a legal system reflects the very basis of the current world in its political and social dimensions, such as globalization and fragmentation, and it aims to demonstrate that climate change law needs a new level of normativity with sufficient potential to achieve it.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Climate change , Anthropocentrism , Environment , Hard law , Soft law

Etik Beyan

Not applicable

Destekleyen Kurum

None

Proje Numarası

None

Teşekkür

None

Kaynakça

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