Global Environmental Governance: Perspectives on the Current Debate

This book of the Center aims to make a contribution to the understanding of the current system of global environmental governance, its strengths and weaknesses, and the options and opportunities to achieve much needed reform.

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1. Cover
2. Contents, Preface and Contributors' Biographies
3. Introduction
   Lydia Swart and Estelle Perry

PART I - CURRENT REFORM INITIATIVES AT THE UN

1. Recommendations from the High-level Panel on System-wide Coherence - Section C on Environment
   Introduction by Mohamed El-Ashry, Member of the Panel
2. Informal Consultations on Environmental Activities - Co-Chair Summary
   Introduction by Enrique Berruga and Peter Maurer, Co-Chairs

PART II - UNDERSTANDING THE EXISTING ARCHITECTURE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

1. Looking Forward by Looking Back: Learning from UNEP's History
   Maria Ivanova
2. The Architecture of Global Enviromental Governance: Pros and Cons of Multiplicity
   Maria Ivanova and Jennifer Roy
3. Governance with Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Healthy or Ill-Equipped Fragmentation?
   Norichika Kanie

PART III - OPTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES

1. From Tons to Trends: Transformation of the Climate Regime
   Christiana Figueres
2. Reforming Global Environmental Governance: from UNEP towards a World Environment Organization
   Frank Biermann
3. A United Nations Environment Organization
   Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf and Markus Knigge

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bibliography

APPENDICES

1. Appendix I, Environment Management Group
2. Appendix II, Friends of the UNEO
3. Appendix III, Paris Call for Action
4. Appendix IV, Overview of Intergovernmental IEG Decisions
5. Appendix V, Cartagena Decision
6. Appendix VI, Bali Strategic Plan

1. Acknowledgments