How can we establish an effective global web of environmental institutions?

Global environmental governance is a fragmented landscape, with more than 500 multilateral environmental agreements in place, various international organisations dealing with environmental issues, and a disturbingly weak and underfunded UN Environment Programme. This complex institutional web poses difficult questions to the social sciences, including the effectiveness of single regimes, interactions between them, options for reform, and practical steering mechanisms. Figuring out how global environmental governance can be made more effective, more legitimate, and more coherent is as yet unanswered.

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