scholarly journals Sustainability Standards: Interactions Between Private Actors, Civil Society, and Governments

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 369-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric F. Lambin ◽  
Tannis Thorlakson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Private Actors

New partnerships between governments, private companies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are reshaping global environmental governance. In particular, there has been a rise of voluntary sustainability standards in an attempt to manage social and environmental impacts of global supply chains. We analyze the large spectrum of interactions between private, public, and civil society actors around voluntary sustainability standards, primarily for tropical agriculture and forestry. This review uncovers a policy ecosystem dominated by a proliferation of standards that complement, substitute, or compete against each other, with coordination mechanisms beginning to arise. Contrary to widely held views, interactions between governments, NGOs, and private companies surrounding the adoption of sustainable practices are not generally antagonistic, and public and private environmental governance regimes rarely operate independently. The influence of these interactions on the effectiveness of sustainability standards needs more attention. Better understanding how private regulations interact with the policy ecosystem will help design more effective interventions.

Accountability of Environmental Impact Bonds: The Future of Global Environmental Governance?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina M. Balboa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Perverse Incentives ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
New Instruments

As the latest iteration of leveraging private resources to protect and sustain our natural resources, the environmental impact bond (EIB) reflects the growing trend in sustainable development that makes financing available to projects based on the verifiable results of an intervention. These new instruments in global environmental governance are not actually bonds but pay-for-success contracts, in which the risk of success is shouldered by the investor, and financial savings, pegged to the intervention outcome, are prioritized. This examination of EIBs through the lens of accountability aims to elicit debate on some areas of concern and consideration for the design and implementation of outcome-based financing for global environmental governance, including the prioritizing of private over public accountabilities and potential perverse incentives these instruments create. As both public and private accountability goals are evident in EIB, this governance tool runs the risk of exacerbating the paradox of increased accountability but decreased environmental gains.

scholarly journals Researching Global Environmental Politics in the 21st Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne ◽  
Jennifer Clapp
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Private Actors

This forum article highlights three major research trends we have observed in the journal Global Environmental Politics since 2000. First, research has increasingly focused on specific and formal mechanisms of global environmental governance, contributing to more elaborate and refined methodologies that span more scales and levels of analysis. Second, research increasingly has concentrated on the rise of market-based governance mechanisms and the influence of private actors, reflecting a broader shift among policymakers toward liberal approaches to governance. Third, over this time empirical research has shifted significantly toward analyzing issues through a lens of climate change, providing valuable insights into environmental change, but narrowing the journal’s empirical focus. These trends, which overlap in complex ways, arise partly from shifts in real-world politics, partly from broader shifts in the overall field of global environmental politics (GEP), and partly from the advancing capacity of GEP theories and methodologies to investigate the full complexity of local to global governance. This maturing of GEP scholarship does present challenges for the field, however, including the ability of field-defining journals such as Global Environmental Politics to engage a diversity of critical scholarly voices and to influence policy and activism.

scholarly journals GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE AS A REGULATORY AND GUARANTEE CRITERION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 942
Author(s):  
Denise Schmitt Siqueira Garcia ◽  
Heloise Siqueira Garcia ◽  
Andrés Molina Giménez
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental

This article deals with the theme of Global Environmental Governance to the achievement of Environmental Justice, presenting as general objective to analyze the importance of the first in its public, business and civil society spheres for the regulation and guarantee of the second. Noting up at the end that the Environmental Justice, as a common humanitarian problem, presents itself as the main objective of Global Environmental Governance. In the methodology was adopted the inductive method, having been applied the techniques of the referent, category, operational concepts, bibliographical research and file.

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