Environmental crises are one of the fundamental challenges of mankind, which have had important consequences such as drought, climate change, deforestation and global warming. This has made the issue of dealing with environmental pollution necessary from a legal point of view. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to examine the important question of what role governments have played in creating environmental crises and what are the legal frameworks and public responsibilities of governments' obligations and responsibilities to resolve these crises? This article is descriptive and analytical, and it has investigated the mentioned subject by using the library method. The findings indicate that governments, due to excessive attention to industrial development and insufficient attention to sustainable development, are one of the main causes of environmental crises through the creation of greenhouse gases, polluting water resources, and marine and forest pollution. They are created through construction and road construction. The principle of prevention with a focus on sustainable development, the principle of caution and predicting one's actions on the environment, the principle of informing other governments about environmental pollution and also informing citizens, the principle of responsibility and payment of compensation, and the principle of international cooperation. It is one of the most important legal frameworks and public responsibilities governing governments to resolve environmental crises, which has been emphasized in various international documents.