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The global environmental governance system is a very productive mechanism for negotiating multilateral environmental agreements. Global environmental governance should not only create an environmental performance that will be enhanced as the actual environmental quality is preserved and desired, but at the same time it should be understood as a valid and reputable governance tool. Because the environmental governance system is being manipulated too much by negotiators' careers and institutional interests, causing significant shortages of practitioners and efforts to implement them. This situation is a major problem in terms of the impact of global environmental governance practices on sustainable development. Another issue that needs to be addressed for environmental governance practices to have the desired effect on sustainable development is the economy. Because it is a fact that economic issues are one of the most important factors in the implementation of internationally accepted environmental decisions, in other words, when countries comply with these decisions. Analyzing the efforts of environmental governance reforms at every level at the global level, it is a priority of the article to propose realistic and appropriate steps to be able to create a useful and holistic plan for a logical and tribal international environmental regime that takes into account economic issues and to undertake a meaningful reform effort. From this point on the practical steps to help this article in the international examples of the way on the basis of sustainable development to provide the global environmental governance forefront of field of international environmental agreements to implement in terms of developing countries such as Turkey tries to be defined.

Continental shelf represents geographically natural extension of the national territory that continues under the sea and legally the seabed, which starts beyond territorial waters and continues to a certain distance and depth, and the territory underground. This territory enables states’ investigation and operation of natural resources in the seabed and underground, and gives states exclusive rights to a certain extent and rules. But determining and limiting the outer and sideward limit of the continental shelf causes conflicts between neighbouring states with adjacent or bilateral coasts, in terms of using their sovereign rights. Disputes arising about the continental shelf are resolved either through diplomacy between the parties in accordance with international treaties or through legal solutions by judicial and arbitration decisions. This study, in which continental shelf has been identified in geographical and legal terms, the rules of international law of the sea concerning the delimitation of continental shelf has been analysed, explains main continental shelf cases, which have been determined in the International Court of Justice and court of arbitration until now. In this context, international judicial institutions in the continental shelf have been examined referring to encountered disputes, according to the general rules of law and international law of the sea.