Reforming international environmental governance : from institutional limits to innovative solutions / edited by W. Bradnee Chambers and Jessica F. Green
Toward an effective framework for sustainable development / W. Bradnee Chambers, Jessica Green -- From environmental to sustainable development governance : thirty years of coordination within the United Nations / W. Bradnee Chambers -- Clustering of multilateral environmental agreements : potentials and limitations / Sebastian Oberthür -- Strengthening international environmental governance by strengthening UNEP / Richard Tarasofsky -- A world environmental organization / Steve Charnovitz -- The World Trade Organization and global environmental governance / Gary Sampson -- Judicial mechanism : is there a need for a World Environment Court / Joost Pauwelyn -- Reforming the United Nations Trusteeship Council / Catherine Redgwell -- Expanding the mandate of the United Nations Security Council / Lorraine Elliott
Summary
More than 500 international agreements and institutions now influence the governance of environmental problems ranging from climate change to persistent organic pollutants. The establishment of environmental institutions has been largely ad hoc, diffused, and somewhat chaotic because the international community has addressed key environmental challenges as and when they have arisen. The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 underscored the need to reform the current institutional framework for environmental governance, but failed to come up with any substantive recomm
