{"title":"High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development","authors":"Kenneth W. Abbott, Steven Bernstein","doi":"10.4324/9780367816681-51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816681-51","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging our way of life to an unprecedented degree and has uncovered the weaknesses of our globalised economic system. It has exposed the failures of neoliberal policies and more than three decades of public sector privatisation and underfunding. We see serious implications of a commercialised, profit-oriented health system, the structures of dependence in global value chains, the hardship of people working in precarious jobs, of women taking on unpaid, invisible care work, and the missing financial safety net for a generation of freelancers. Our current system destroys the environment by polluting air, water, and soil, and exploiting resources and material, leaving more than 10 percent of the global population in extreme poverty. These global multiple crises will only growth in number and intensity. Protest movements all over the world with millions of people have shown us that a majority of people want progressive policies for the common good and global justice. This is at the heart of the","PeriodicalId":312814,"journal":{"name":"Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125465277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants","authors":"Jessica Templeton","doi":"10.4324/9780367816681-99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816681-99","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312814,"journal":{"name":"Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131138140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical political economy","authors":"P. Newell","doi":"10.4324/9780367816681-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816681-23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312814,"journal":{"name":"Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122832434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UN Convention on the Law of the Sea","authors":"Tim Stephens","doi":"10.4324/9780367816681-115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816681-115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312814,"journal":{"name":"Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127869543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World Environment Organization","authors":"F. Biermann","doi":"10.1002/9780470670590.WBEOG828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.WBEOG828","url":null,"abstract":"A “world environment organization” does not exist. Yet proposals to create an international agency on environmental protection have been debated for over 40 years now (overviews in Biermann & Bauer 2005). More than 50 countries, including all the member states of the European Union, presently support the upgrading of the United Nations Environment Programme to a “United Nations Environment Organization.” This policy position is likely to form a major element in the negotiations around the 2012 international summit that will mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Keywords: \u0000 \u0000bureaucracy; \u0000climate; \u0000diplomacy and international relations; \u0000environmental regulation; \u0000international agencies","PeriodicalId":312814,"journal":{"name":"Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122209271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investment protection","authors":"Laurie Durel","doi":"10.4324/9780367816681-57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816681-57","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312814,"journal":{"name":"Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121084076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}