Article Title
Document Type
Symposium
Publication Date
Winter 2009
Publication Citation
16 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 7 (2009)
Abstract
Environmental thinking and activism are steadily gaining widespread, even global acceptance, but are often in conflict with economic interests and international politics. Environmental priorities are further challenged by scientific uncertainty involving effects that in some cases will only become manifest far into the future. Nonetheless, accompanying this global environmental awakening has been an extraordinary number of international agreements on a wide range of critical environmental issues. While many of these environmental regimes lack adequate financial support and sanctions for non-compliance, they involve a variety of non-state actors, suggesting meaningful movement towards an evolving, complex form of global environmental governance. Indeed, there are already examples of shared global governance where states have ceded some power to intergovernmental organizations to govern specific environmental issues, and this is almost certain to expand in the future.
Operationalizing Global Governance, Symposium. Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington, Indiana, March 19-21, 2008
Recommended Citation
Winchester, N. Brian
(2009)
"Emerging Global Environmental Governance,"
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies: Vol. 16:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol16/iss1/2