Study On The Legal Issues Of The Greater Mekong Sub-region Environmental Cooperation

From the Mekong Massacre to “One Belt One Road” vision released, Greater Mekong once again catches people’s eyes. But the Greater Mekong Sub-region for the first time as a region into the people’s vision is 1992 ADB led the establishment of the Mekong River Subregion economic cooperation organization. In order to start, the Mekong River riparian countries, ASEAN, Japan and Australia countries and regions and the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Asia Pacific Economic and Social Council International Organizations in the region economic cooperation of different degree of participation and support, after more than 20 years of operation and development, sub-region formed complex international cooperation and development mechanism. Under the joint efforts of various cooperation mechanisms, the Greater Mekong Sub-region has achieved some results in trade, investment, transportation, tourism, and other key areas of drug control.However, the development of the region has become more and more limited to the environment, environmental problems in cooperation for a long time without economic decision, project implementation is blocked, environmental problems have become the obstacle of economic development. At present, the environmental cooperation in the region mainly to the project led, lack of the guarantee of legal system, there is no effective environmental cooperation mechanism, has occurred or potential disputes, not to solve. The Greater Mekong Sub-region has always been a "China ASEAN FTA Demonstration Area" of the title, especially after the publication of "China One Belt One Road Initiative" strategy, the Greater Mekong Sub-region has become the "One Belt One Road" strategic breakthrough in South and Southeast Asia, the Greater Mekong Sub-region environmental problems were not to solve, it will inevitably affect the economic development of the region, thereby affecting the overall strategic layout China. It is based on this, the author with the purpose of discovering a problem, analysis problem, problem-solving ideas on legal issues existing in the Greater Mekong Sub-region environmental cooperation research, and the legal problems existing in the Greater Mekong Sub-region environmental cooperation put forward countermeasure to perfect.In this paper, except the introduction, consists of four parts:The first part introduced the concept of the Greater Mekong Sub-region, mainly includes the origin of the Greater Mekong Sub-region, regional and sub regional difference, followed by the introduction of the foundation of the Greater Mekong Sub-regional cooperation. Finally, analyzing the present situation of the Greater Mekong Sub-regional environment.The second part mainly analysis the Mekong River Sub-region environmental cooperation in the field of law, legal existence problem by study of the rule of law, and find out the defects of the rule of law, through analysis of defects, find out the crux of the defects of the, and put forward improvement measures.The third part mainly analyzes the legal problems in the main environmental cooperation mechanism of the Great Mekong Sub-region, mainly including the types of cooperation mechanism, the existing legal defects, and then put forward the improvement measures.The fourth part mainly analyzes the problems of the Great Mekong Sub-regional environmental cooperation dispute settlement mechanism, including the types of dispute settlement mechanism, the defects of the construction of the dispute settlement mechanism, and then puts forward the improvement measures.