从全球角度看,人类环境问题层出不穷,不断挑战着人类及国际法,特别是国际法的分支——国际环境法。国际环境法在面对人类环境问题的挑战时,不断突破,在众多方面有着从无到有、从小到大、从零散到系统的发展。有关国际环境法发展的文献基本都是在描述这一发展历史,而鲜有文献涉及国际环境法在实践中难以突破的地方,这些地方,在之前的历史中未予以突破,并在今后一段时期内也难以突破。这主要指国际环境法在发展中,实然的国际环境法对部分应然的国际环境法的排除,在某些方面将按照传统的理论或模式延续下去。主要原因在于国际环境问题的整体性与主权国家的独立性难以协调,具体来说就是国家之间的利益冲突、环境保护与经济发展的冲突。国际环境法发展中的难以突破之处,具体说来有以下几处。一、国际环境法难以法典化。由 From the global point of view, the endless problems of human environment constantly challenge the human and international law, especially the branch of international law - international environmental law. In the face of the challenge of the human environment, international environmental law constantly breaks through and develops in many aspects from scratch, from small to large and from fragmented to systematic. The literature on the development of international environmental law is basically describing the history of this development. There is little literature on where international environmental law is difficult to break through in practice. These places have not been broken through in the history before and will not be explored in the coming period Difficult to break within. This mainly refers to the exclusion of some due international environmental laws by international environmental law in the development of international environmental law and in some respects it will be continued in accordance with the traditional theory or model. The main reason is that the integrity of international environmental issues can not be reconciled with the independence of sovereign countries, specifically conflicts of interest between countries, environmental protection and economic development. In the development of international environmental law is difficult to break through, specifically, the following several. First, international environmental law is difficult to codify. by