Internationally agreed environmental goals: A critical evaluation of progress

Jabbour, Jason; Keita-Ouane, Fatoumata; Hunsberger, Carol; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Roberto; Gilruth, P.; Patel, Neeyati; Singh, Ashbindu; Levy, Marion J.; Schwarzer, Stefan

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2012.05.002

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“…The second most common economic cause of policy implementation failure was the favouring of economic outcomes over environmental sustainability [32,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]. Rogers and Wilkinson [41] argued that the failure to pass the Canada Endangered Species Protection Act was due to the framing of all discussions in the economic context with commercial interests valued over species protection.…”

Section: Interrelated Structural Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The third cause was low levels of economic development and the impacts of development on the environment, particularly in Asia and Africa [37,48,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. As Boadi [53] found, waste disposal, water supply and pollution in the urban areas of Africa were still a significant and growing concern due to poor economic performance limiting the human and material resources available to deal with problems.…”

Section: Interrelated Structural Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

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For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific monitoring indicate that the world is no closer to environmental sustainability and in many respects the situation is getting worse. This paper argues that a significant contributing factor to this situation is policy implementation failure. A systematic review of the literature reveals that the failure to achieve the intended outcomes of environmental policies is due to economic, political and communication factors. Conflict between the objectives of environmental policies and those focused on economic development, a lack of incentives to implement environmental policies, and a failure to communicate objectives to key stakeholders are all key factors that contribute to the inability to attain environmental sustainability.

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Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

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“…For example, in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process the growing scientific research on the atmosphere is providing substantial knowledge and translating it into policy-relevant information. This near consensus of scientists supported by powerful evidence is meeting the inertia of the global atmospheric environment policy-making process (Jabbour et al, 2012).…”

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“…Consequently the first generation issues remain a major priority. At a global level there is a variety of opinions expressed by governments about the causes, severity, priority, urgency and policies needed to address the third generation challenges, so a consensus on globally agreed actions is currently rare, impeding significant implementation programmes (Jabbour et al, 2012).…”

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The changing winds of atmospheric environment policy

Murray¹

2013

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…As REDD+ is unique in its approach of economic incentives as a means to control deforestation and sustainably manage forests it has the potential to link together both exclusion considerations (i.e., livelihoods) and ecological risks (i.e., reducing GHGs emissions/preserving forest carbon stocks). However, it not yet known whether REDD+ will be successful given the low success rate of global environmental instruments re their goals (Jabbour et al 2012). Even if REDD+ is successful with respect to promoting global sustainable forest m re re…”

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Emergent Global Land Governance

Margulis¹

2014

Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era

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Land governance is currently the focus of many new global rule-making projects, marking a sharp break with past practices that sought to exclude land as an international governance issue. Wideranging concerns about land grabbing and its exclusionary and ecological consequences have driven this, prompting states and global civil society to devise new global land-governance instruments. This chapter offers a preliminary theoretical and empirical analysis of what is conceptualized as "emergent global land governance," focusing primarily on its international governance dimensions. A review of relevant land-governance policy instruments in the fields of investment, land tenure, and forestry suggests that emergent global land governance is likely to consist of multiple, overlapping instruments with diverging normative frameworks and objectives that are not closely coordinated instead of a singular, discrete international regime.

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Internationally agreed environmental goals: A critical evaluation of progress

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References 39 publications

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

The changing winds of atmospheric environment policy

Emergent Global Land Governance

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