GVPT 306 Lecture 7: Global Environmental Institutions
24 Sep 2018
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Integovernmental organizations: united nations environmental program (unep, united nations development program (undp, food and agriculture organizations (fao, global environmental facility (gef, world bank. International monetary fund: regional actors (ex: european union, meas, montr al protocol, kyoto protocol, there are between 500 1000 meas, depending on how one counts. Institutional mechanisms: agenda-setting and regime-forming, providing information, venues for repeated interaction and negotiation. Influence national developmental policy: provide funding for implementation. Little evidence exists that international environmental institutions have enforcement capacity: are institutions fully autonomous from states, three major issues, funding (where will the money come from?, participation (how do we encourage states to participate?, design. Major issue: participation: strategies to encourage participation, funding, advantages to members, thresholds for entry, role of the u. s. , when the u. s. refuses to participate in an institution, other states may be dissuaded from doing so. Is institutional complexity/redundancy good or bad: advantages, check against institutional failure, supports innovation, response to complexity, disadvantages, overlapping mandates, competition.
