ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Global Governance, Environmental Governance, Global Commons
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Poe lecture 6 global environmental governance (with emphasis on climate governance) Environmental problems on a global scale, but no global/ world government: un is merely and international organization (not supranational like eu) To fill the gap, global (environmental) governance emerged, using treaties, protocols etc: also many nonstate actors /networks etc. like wwf, greenpeace; fsc etc. growing number. Climate change (unfccc) article 3 and rio declaration principle 7) Environmental governance has been mostly state-led, whereby national governments cooperate to establish multilateral environmental agreements and the networks of institutions and organizations that manage them. The charter of the united nations governs relations between states. Declaration of human rights pertains to relations between the state and the individual. The time has come to devise a covenant regulating relations between humankind and nature. (1990. A market failure: capitalism as root of climate change. Optimism, one world, lets solve problems together. Unfccc, genesis of the united nations framework convention in climate change.
