The Global Pact for the Environment was first proposed in 2017 by an international network of more than a hundred experts (professors, judges, lawyers) from forty different countries now known as the “International Group of Experts for the Pact” (IGEP). The current IGEP chair is Laurent Fabius, President of the French Constitutional Council and former President of COP 21. Its Secretary-General is Yann Aguila, a lawyer at the Paris Bar and President of the Environment Committee of the Club des Juristes, a French legal think tank.