strategy
Developing international environmental policy
Synonyms:
Integrating environment and development in world decision-makingForming coherent global environmental policies
Implementation:
The United Nations has played a vital role in fashioning a global programme designed to protect the environment, particularly by holding the "Earth Summit", the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 following which all countries adopted Agenda 21 -- a blueprint to promote sustainable development or the concept of economic growth while protecting natural resources.Reports on the state of the environment and/or health provide a useful basis for periodic reviews of policy. The value of such reporting as a policy guidance tool is enhanced if, in addition to providing factual information on the present and projected state of the environment and health, it explicitly reviews trends in the light of indicators of sustainability.
Claim:
1. The Berlin Wall has disappeared, but large differences between East and West remain. Bringing the Central and Eastern European countries closer to the West - politically and economically - will bring great benefits to the environment as well.2. We need a stronger environmental partnership between Europe and the United States.
3. An element of uncertainty is associated with most environmental policy measures. Indicators of policy effectiveness and underlying observing mechanisms are lacking everywhere, from local level initiatives to multilateral agreements. These deficiencies prevent the monitoring and assessment of policy performance.
Broader:
Developing policyIntegrating environment and development in decision-makingAssuring environmental protection Narrower:
Developing policy on climate changeDeveloping cautious environmental policyPlanning development of natural resourcesDeveloping policy for conservation of forestsDeveloping national environmental policy studiesApplying trade measures to enforce environmental policies Facilitates:
Developing international environmental lawImplementing international development strategyProviding environmental assistance to developing countriesProtesting environmentally unsound policies of development banks Facilitated by:
Formulating policy on sciencesAdvocating sustainable developmentDeveloping scenarios for population growthReaching consensus on environmental hazardsResearching legal aspects of biodiversity protectionAdopting integrated approaches to sustainable developmentCreating global alliance for environmental sustainabilityEstablishing international environmental court of justiceResearching effects of fiscal policy on innovation of environmental technologies Problems:
Unethical practices of environmentalistsOrganizations:
World Business Council for Sustainable Development NGO-World Bank Committee World Resources Institute United Nations Centre for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development World Business Council for Sustainable Development - Latin America United Nations Environment Programme References:
Robinson, Nicholas A: Agenda 21: working toward a global partnershipO'Neili, John: Ecology, Policy and Politics: human well-being and the natural worldGrubb, Michael, et al: The Earth Summit Agreements: a guide and assessmentHöll, O: Environmental Cooperation in EuropeJohnson, Stanley P and Corcelle, Guy: The Environmental Policy of the European Communities Subjects:
Environment → Environment Development → Development
Policy-making → Policy
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
