scholarly journals New alliances in global environmental governance: how intergovernmental treaty secretariats interact with non-state actors to address transboundary environmental problems

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-481
Author(s):  
Thomas Hickmann ◽  
Joshua Philipp Elsässer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
State Actors

4. Non-state actors

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-160
Author(s):  
Jean-Frédéric Morin ◽  
Amandine Orsini ◽  
Sikina Jinnah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Research And Education

This chapter focuses on non-state actors in global environmental governance. Non-state actors, such as non-governmental organisations (NGOs), corporations, and transnational networks, play an increasingly significant role in global environmental politics. Some of them, such as Greenpeace and Shell, became well known by communicating directly with the public or consumers. Others, such as the Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education or the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, are less visible to the wider public but no less influential. The scope, diversity, preferences, methods of engagement, and contributions of non-state actors to global environmental governance are often overshadowed by a focus on state actors. The chapter sheds light on how non-state actors engage in global environmental governance and highlights how they shape the political landscape in this field.

scholarly journals Accountability in Global Environmental Governance: A Meaningful Tool for Action?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Kramarz ◽  
Susan Park
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Environmental Institutions ◽  
Global Environmental

Global environmental governance (GEG) is characterized by fragmentation, duplication, dispersed authority, and weak regulations. The gap between the need for action and existing responses has led to demands for accountability. This has created a paradox: accountability mechanisms to improve GEG have proliferated while the environment deteriorates. We offer a two-tier explanation for this paradox. First, actors establishing GEG are not held to account for the design of their environmental interventions. Biases in public, private, voluntary, and hybrid institutions, which shape goals and determine what to account for and to whom, remain unexamined. Second, efforts to establish accountability focus on functional requirements like monitoring and compliance, leading accountability to be viewed as an end in itself. Thus, complying with accountability may not mitigate negative environmental impacts. The utility of accountability hinges on improving governance at both tiers. Turning the accountability lens to the goals of those designing environmental institutions can overcome the focus of justifying institutions over environmental problems.

scholarly journals MEMPROBLEMATISASI PERAN KOTA DALAM TATA KELOLA LINGKUNGAN GLOBAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Ramadhan Bastari ◽  
Lathiefah Widuri Retyaningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
International Norm ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Norm Entrepreneur

This paper will discuss about problems surrounding discourse on the role of local government or ‘city’ in global environmental governance. Many scholars, such as Acuto (2013), Betsill & Bulkeley (2010) and Fraser (2014) have argued that city might be the missing actor that global environmental governance needs to make it work. However, this paper believes that the argument is riddled with fallacy, most notably with the way they did not take into account the existence of growth-based development ideology that can prevent local government from truly preserving the environment. This paper argues that city is not the panacea that will solve all environmental problems since it favors utilitarianism approach over deep ecology. However, this paper acknowledges that city could be the new norm entrepreneur that can strengthen international norm on environmental preservation.Keyword: City, Environment, Norm, Utilitarianism

scholarly journals What the Framework Convention on Climate Change Teaches Us About Cooperation on Climate Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Victor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Basic Concepts

Arild Underdal has been at the center of an important community of scholars studying global environmental governance. Since the 1990s that community, along with many other scholars globally, has offered important insights into the design and management of international institutions that can lead to more effective management of environmental problems. At the same time, diplomats have made multiple attempts to create institutions to manage the dangers of climate change. This essay looks at what has been learned by both communities—scholars and practitioners—as their efforts co-evolved. It appears that despite a wealth of possible insights into making cooperation effective very few of the lessons offered by scholars had much impact during the first two decades of climate change diplomacy. Indeed, basic concepts from cooperation theory and evidence from case studies—many developed in Arild’s orbit—can explain why those two decades achieved very little real cooperation. The new Paris agreement may be changing all that and much better reflects insights from scholars about how to build effective international institutions. Success in the Paris process is far from assured and scholars can contribute a lot more with a more strategic view of when and how they have an impact.

scholarly journals Global Environmental Governance Reform: The Emerging Debate on the Need for a World Environment Organisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Empire Hechime Nyekwere
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Set Up ◽  
World Environment

Environmental problems, such as climate change, ocean pollution, the depletion of fisheries, and loss of biological diversity, have come to demonstrate most openly our current global interconnectedness. Governments continue to set-up international mechanisms for tackling global-scale environmental problems which has led to a complex international bureaucracy, significant burdens on national administrative capabilities in both the developed and the developing world, and, most importantly, inability on the part of existing international or national bodies to successfully deal with the problems at hand. In this context, the question of the most suitable governance architecture for the scale and scope of contemporary global environmental problems has become an important focus of both policy and academic debates. Scholars and politicians alike have argued that if we do not address governance failures, our stewardship of the environment will persist to be ineffective and inequitable, with little possibility of finding a pathway toward sustainability. Consequently, national governments, civil society groups, and experts on global environment policy have called for the reform of the global environmental governance structure. This paper reviews the most prominent policy options for environmental governance reform that have received attention in the literature, and identifies key points of contention and convergence. To achieve its aim, the paper is divided as follows: introduction, core issues of debate on the need for a World Environment Organization, models of global environmental governance reform, arguments against a World Environment Organization and the concluding remark.

Liberal Environmentalism and Global Environmental Governance

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Earth Summit ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
International Environmental Treaties

Global environmental governance rests on a set of norms best characterized by the label “liberal environmentalism.” The 1992 Earth Summit catalyzed the process of institutionalizing these norms, which predicate environmental pro tection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. To support this claim, this article identifies the specific norms institutionalized since Rio that undergird international environmental treaties, policies and programs. It also explains why a shift toward liberal environmentalism occurred from earlier, very different, bases of environmental governance. The implications of this shift are then outlined, with examples drawn from responses to climate change, forest protection and use, and biosafety. The article is not an endorsement of liberal environmentalism. Rather, it shows that institutions that have developed in response to global environmental problems support particular kinds of values and goals, with important implications for the constraints and opportunities to combat the world's most serious environmental problems.

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