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Environmental governance refers to the processes of decision-making involved in the control and management of the environment and natural resources. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), define environmental governance as the "multi-level interactions (i.e., local, national, international/global) among, but not limited to, three main actors, i.e., state, market, and civil ...
The concept of earth system governance (ESG) is defined in the 2009 Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project as: "the interrelated and increasingly integrated system of formal and informal rules, rule-making systems, and actor-networks at all levels of human society (from local to global) that are set up to steer societies towards preventing, mitigating, and ...
It consists of 26 principles and led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which laid the foundation for future global environmental governance. [1] [2] The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 5–16 in 1972.
In 1972, environmental governance was not seen as an international priority, particularly for the Global South. Developing nations supported the creation of the UNEP, not because they supported environmental governance, but because of its headquarters' location in Nairobi , Kenya, as the UNEP would be the first UN agency to be based in a ...
Environmental Governance [27] Environment under Review [28] UNEP provides information and data on the global environment to stakeholders including governments, non-governmental organizations and the public for them to engage in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals. The information which UNEP shares is based on the latest science and is ...
Maria Ivanova, Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, writes in a working paper entitled Assessing UNEP as Anchor Institution for the Global Environment: Lessons for the UNEO Debate that "anchor institutions are the primary, though not the only, international organizations in ...
In 2024: Volvo Environment Prize for "defining new pathways for international environmental governance in a period of global change" [10] In 2021: Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Studies by the International Studies Association. This award is "a lifetime achievement award and recognises outstanding scholars whose long history of ...
Also, environmental governance priorities in the Global North have been at odds with the desire to focus on economic development in the Global South. [ 52 ] Some analysts propose a shift towards "non-state" actors for the development of environmental governance. [ 53 ]