The role of international regimes and courts in clarifying prevention of harm in freshwater and marine environmental protectionSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 20 - Trang 649-666 - 2020
Ruby Moynihan, Bjørn-Oliver Magsig
The international legal architecture to manage freshwater and ocean ecosystems
does not adequately provide for the interconnected nature of these ecosystems or
the transboundary harm flowing between them. Pollution from land-based sources
exemplifies this issue where plastic, agricultural run-off, discharge of
nutrients and pesticides and untreated sewage accounts for approximately 80% of
all mari... hiện toàn bộ
The effectiveness of UN environmental institutionsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 317-336 - 2007
Steinar Andresen
This is a study of the effectiveness of key UN institutions focussing on
environment and sustainable development: the global conferences on development
and the environment, the CSD and UNEP, primarily its co-ordinating functions.
According to the indicators used to measure effectiveness here, it is concluded
that the overall effectiveness of these institutions is quite low. This
particularly appli... hiện toàn bộ
The Netherlands in the UNFCCC Process –Leadership between Ambition and RealitySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 49-68 - 2002
Magnus Andersson, Arthur P. J. Mol
The Netherlands is generally considered as a front running nation in
international environmental politics. This article looks at the influence of The
Netherlands in international climate change regime formation by analyzing the
structural, entrepreneurial, intellectual and environmental leadership qualities
exerted by. The Netherlands during the FCCC policy process. In addition, the EU
as an enabl... hiện toàn bộ
Fairly sharing 1.5: national fair shares of a 1.5 °C-compliant global mitigation effortSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 117-134 - 2017
Ceecee Holz, Sivan Kartha, Tom Athanasiou
The problem of fairly distributing the global mitigation effort is particularly
important for the 1.5 °C temperature limitation objective, due to its rapidly
depleting global carbon budget. Here, we present methodology and results of the
first study examining national mitigation pledges presented at the 2015 Paris
climate summit, relative to equity benchmarks and 1.5 °C-compliant global
mitigation... hiện toàn bộ
Small and smart: the role of Switzerland in the Cartagena and Nagoya protocols negotiationsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 553-571 - 2016
Tobias Schulz, Marc Hufty, Maurice Tschopp
This paper looks at Switzerland to examine the role of a small state during the
negotiations of the Cartagena and the Nagoya Protocols to the Convention on
Biological Diversity. The influence of this small country was substantial at
some point in the negotiation processes and on important features of the
protocols. The main explanatory factors for this influence are identified as the
competence an... hiện toàn bộ
The New Water Legislation of Zimbabwe and South Africa – Comparison of Legal and Institutional ReformSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 305-325 - 2001
Frank G. W. Jaspers
Recently, several new pieces of water legislation have been promulgated in both
Zimbabwe and the Republic of South Africa. The new acts are an attempt to
correct injustices of a colonial past and to trigger development towards
effective, equitable and efficient integrated water resources management
influenced by the policy decisions in Agenda 21 and the need to respect economic
and social human ri... hiện toàn bộ
Removing fuel subsidies: How can international organizations support national policy reforms?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 327-340 - 2017
Joel E. Smith, Johannes Urpelainen
This article investigates how international organizations can support fuel
subsidy reform. Departing from earlier studies, we focus on the ability of
international organizations to assist national governments directly in the
enactment and implementation of national reforms. While international
organizations lack the capacity to directly enforce policy or force countries to
abolish subsidies, they ... hiện toàn bộ
Cancun’s paradigm shift and COP 21: to go beyond rhetoricSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 343-351 - 2015
Jean-Charles Hourcade, P.-R. Shukla
This foreword explains why the success of COP21 is dependent upon its capacity
to operate the paradigm shift announced in Cancun. It comes back to the recent
history of the Conference of the Parties and shows the reasons for the emergence
of the notion of ‘equitable rights to sustainable development (EASD)’ which
enlarged the concept of equity beyond ‘burden sharing’. It shows why this
paradigm sh... hiện toàn bộ