PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: List Of Specialized Agencies Of The United Nations, Environmental Governance, United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea
23 Nov 2017
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History of environmental governance at the global level. Regimes to deal with collective goods problems. Issues that we don"t know whether are global or not. 3 obstacles to better environmental performance: sovereignty, conflicting scientific data, tensions between conflicting government priorities = economic growth objective vs. environmental protection objective. Conflicting policy priorities clear when we consider trade. Government wants to trade to grow economically. Need to prevent barriers that block their goods. Problem: environmental regulations sometimes viewed as a non tariff barrier. Us biotech firms genetically modified fruits and vegetables: Gmo case highlights 2 barriers to environmental governance. Conflicting goals of trade and economic growth vs. environmental concerns. The problem of contradictory and/of inconclusive research and dada: stockholm conference. Principle that countries are liable for damage that their citizens cause in another country: conservation of resources. Outside the political reach of individual nation states. 1946 international convention for the regulation of whaling.
