Global environmental politics (GEP) hub >
Contents:
· International organizations
· Multilateral negotiation initiatives
· Research & education projects & initiatives
· Research institutions (& associated information guides)
· General declarations, strategies, principles, resolutions & manifestos
Multilateral negotiation initiatives
Global Pact for the Environment
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development
Research institutions, education initiatives & projects (& associated information guides)
Animal Legal & Historical Center @ Michigan State University
· "...a comprehensive repository of information about animal law, including: over 1200 full text
cases (US, historical, and UK), over 1400 US statutes, over 60 topics and comprehensive
explanations, legal articles on a variety of animal topics and an international collection.."
British International Studies Association
Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
· CIESIN has a comprehensive one-page listing of key international environmental resources.
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
· “...the largest social science research network in the area of governance and global
environmental change.”
Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) network
· “...provides a platform for scholars studying environmental issues to present research, exchange
ideas, and collaborate. EPG organizes five events: (1) the annual conference, (2) biweekly online
seminars, (3) the annual graduate workshop, (4) deep climate conversations, and (5) mentoring.”
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
Standing Group on Environmental Politics
· Successor to International Human Dimenstions Programme on Global Environmental
Change (IHDP), concluded 2014.
Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) project
Global Environmental Governance Project
· Serves "three core functions:
1. Provide a ‘clearinghouse’ of environmental governance information for
scholars, researchers, students, policymakers, and diplomats;
2. Serve as a ‘rigorous analyst’ of available data offering theoretical,
empirical and policy relevant analysis;
3. Act as an ‘honest broker’ convening various stakeholders and
facilitating dialogue and engagement."
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)
· “GRID-Arendal was established in 1989 to support environmentally sustainable development by
working with UN Environment and other partners.”
· "We transform environmental data into credible, science-based information products, delivered
through in novative communications tools and capacity building services."
International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)]
· Committees include: Global Health Law, Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
International Law & Sea Level Rise, Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance,
Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development,
Sustainable Developement and the Green Economy in International Trade Law
International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE)
International Political Economy of Everyday Life (I-PEEL)
International Science Council (ISC)
· “...a non-governmental organization with a unique global membership that brings together 40
international scientific Unions and Associations and over 140 national and regional scientific
organizations including Academies and Research Councils. The ISC was created in 2018 as the
result of a merger between the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International
Social Science Council (ISSC).”
International Studies Association (ISA)
· Environmental Studies Section
· “Ecological experts and the conservation policy of international organizations (1920-2000)”
Open Government Partnership: Environment & Climate
Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)
Political Ecology Society (PESO)
Political Scientists for Sustainability
Planet Politics Institute (PPI)
Present & Future Institute (PFI)
Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN)
· “Founded in 2009, the STRN is the international network of scholars interested in sustainability
transitions. The network has grown considerably since its inception and now numbers over 3000
scholars. It has also become increasingly diverse with respect to geography, methods, and themes.”
General declarations, strategies, principles, resolutions & manifestos
· 1920 US Senate resolution on conservation
· 1972 Stockholm Declaration
· 1974 Cocoyoc Declaration (UNEP/UNCTAD Symposium)
· 1978 UNEP Principles on Conservation and Harmonious Utilization of Natural Resources Shared by Two or More States
· 1980 World Conservation Strategy; Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
· 1987 World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Brundtland report)
· 1989 Declaration of Brazilia
· Latin American and Caribbean states reaffirming sovereignty over resources, but willingness
to cooperate on environmental issues)
· 1991 Business Charter on Sustainable Development (ICC)
· 1991 Valdez Principles
· 1991 Declaration of World Industry Conference on Environmental Management (WICEM II)
· 1992 Declaration of the UN Conference on Environment and Development
· 1992 Agenda 21
· 1992 Statement of Forest Principals
· 1992 Rio Declaration
· 1994 UN Security Council resolution 687
· Iraq: determining that a state can be liable for environmental damage and depletion
of natural resources resulting from unlawful use of force
· 2004 Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for sustainable use
