UNEP in Global Environmental Governance: Design, Leadership, Location

Ivanova, Maria

doi:10.1162/glep.2010.10.1.30

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“…However, techniques of inclusiveness are certainly at stake in the making of other international ESPIs as well, especially when it takes place under the auspices of UNEP: While the IPBES can be considered to some extent an idiosyncratic institution, its creation process was clearly influenced by the UNEP culture of negotiation and diplomacy (Ivanova 2007(Ivanova , 2010. The case of the IPBES creation more broadly suggests the key role of techniques of inclusiveness in enacting the globality of social-ecological changes.…”

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Institutional entrepreneurship and techniques of inclusiveness in the creation of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Arpin¹,

Barbier²,

Ollivier³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. This article contributes to understanding the conditions of social-ecological change by focusing on the agency of individuals in the pathways to institutionalization. Drawing on the case of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), it addresses institutional entrepreneurship in an emerging environmental science-policy institution (ESPI) at a global scale.Drawing on ethnographic observations, semistructured interviews, and document analysis, we propose a detailed chronology of the genesis of the IPBES before focusing on the final phase of the negotiations toward the creation of the institution. We analyze the techniques and skills deployed by the chairman during the conference to handle the tensions at play both to prevent participants from deserting the negotiations arena and to prevent a lack of inclusiveness from discrediting the future institution. We stress that creating a new global environmental institution requires the situated exercise of an art of "having everybody on board" through techniques of inclusiveness that we characterize.Our results emphazise the major challenge of handling the fragmentation and plasticity of the groups of interest involved in the institutionalization process, thus adding to the theory of transformative agency of institutional entrepreneurs. Although inclusiveness might remain partly unattainable, such techniques of inclusiveness appear to be a major condition of the legitimacy and success of the institutionalization of a new global ESPI. Our results also add to the literature on boundary making within ESPIs by emphasizing the multiplicity and plasticity of the groups actually at stake.

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Institutional entrepreneurship and techniques of inclusiveness in the creation of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Arpin¹,

Barbier²,

Ollivier³

et al. 2016

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“…Does its remote location constrain its abilities to network with other international organizations? Such a question might also be relevant for an organization like the United Nations Environment Program, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya (Ivanova, 2010). These and other questions call for further research into the drivers, forms and consequences of inter-organizational relations, both in global energy governance and beyond.…”

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Organizational Interactions in Global Energy Governance

Graaf

2016

Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics

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Energy security -that is, the provision of adequate, reliable and affordable energy services to end-users in a socially acceptable and environmentally sustainable way -represents one of the world's foremost challenges. Solving the world's energy problems requires international cooperation. Some energy-related issues, such as high and volatile oil prices and rising carbon emissions, are global public 'bads' that cannot be effectively addressed by individual governments acting alone. 1 Others, such as electricity deprivation in the Global South or the urgent need to research and diffuse breakthrough energy technologies, require the production of global public goods such as knowledge, financing, and standards ( Van de Graaf, 2013b).In contrast to other transboundary issues such as trade or finance, there is no single international venue for energy policy deliberation and coordination. There is no 'World Energy Organization'. Instead, global energy policy is splintered across different international organizations, forums and clubs, creating demands and opportunities for inter-organizational relations. The aim of this chapter is to explore some of these inter-organizational interactions in global energy governance. 2 Starting point is the International Energy Agency (IEA), which is widely recognized as the focal organization in this policy domain (Colgan, 2009;Kohl, 2010;Leverett, 2010;Florini, 2011;Van de Graaf, 2012). After reviewing the policy field and literature, the chapter discusses the IEA's role within the global energy architecture. Then, it studies the interactions 1

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“…The architecture for the rule of ecological law must include an institutional structure consisting of "a set of principles, rules, norms and procedures" along with physical and organizational infrastructure [88]. The institutional challenge is enormous, because the architecture must encompass an integrated system from the global to the local level, addressing complex dynamics of temporal and spatial scale (including interrelationships that cut across those scales) and also shifting the current primacy given to creation of monetary wealth to considerations of the ecological limitations of the economy.…”

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The Rule of Ecological Law: The Legal Complement to Degrowth Economics

Garver

2013

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Abstract:The rule of ecological law is a fitting complement to degrowth. Planetary boundaries of safe operating space for humanity, along with complementary measures and principles, provide scientific and ethical foundations of the rule of ecological law, which should have several reinforcing features. First, it should recognize humans are part of Earth's life systems. Second, ecological limits must have primacy over social and economic regimes. Third, the rule of ecological law must permeate all areas of law. Fourth, it should focus on radically reducing material and energy throughput. Fifth, it must be global, but distributed, using the principle of subsidiarity. Sixth, it must ensure fair sharing of resources among present and future generations of humans and other life. Seventh, it must be binding and supranational, with supremacy over sub-global legal regimes as necessary. Eighth, it requires a greatly expanded program of research and monitoring. Ninth, it requires precaution about crossing global ecological boundaries. Tenth, it must be adaptive. Although the transition from a growth-insistent economy headed toward ecological collapse to an economy based on the rule of ecological law is elusive, the European Union may be a useful structural model.

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UNEP in Global Environmental Governance: Design, Leadership, Location

Cited by 101 publications

References 16 publications

Institutional entrepreneurship and techniques of inclusiveness in the creation of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Institutional entrepreneurship and techniques of inclusiveness in the creation of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Organizational Interactions in Global Energy Governance

The Rule of Ecological Law: The Legal Complement to Degrowth Economics

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