This article examines the implications for a change in framework from sustainable development to degrowth in the environmental and social discourse of International Economic Law (I.Econ.L.). It argues that the framework of sustainable development accommodates the Global North's inaction in assuaging environmental degradation and alleviating global inequality by remaining embedded in a capitalist, growth-oriented political economy. Degrowth would provide a strategy to move past such an impasse by encouraging actors to grapple with the role growth plays in the rationale behind I.Econ.L. Degrowth advocates a planned economic contraction to reconcile human's relationship with the environment. This project serves as the first effort to link ideas of degrowth with I.Econ.L. and seeks to identify some of the areas in I.Econ.L.'s scholarship where degrowth would serve as an alternative to sustainable development and what such an alternative would mean for the norms in the different areas of I.Econ.L.

本文探讨了国际经济法 (I.Econ.L.) 的环境和社会话语中从可持续发展到退化的框架变化的影响。它认为，可持续发展的框架适应了全球北方在缓解环境退化和缓解全球不平等方面的不作为，通过保持植根于资本主义、以增长为导向的政治经济。Degrowth 将通过鼓励参与者应对增长在 I.Econ.L. Degrowth 提倡有计划的经济收缩，以调和人类与环境的关系。该项目是第一次尝试将 degrowth 的想法与 I.Econ.L. 联系起来。并试图确定 I.Econ.L. 中的一些领域。