{"id":1209,"date":"2012-06-02T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/06\/02\/biermannsdg2012\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:27:14","slug":"biermannsdg2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/biermannsdg2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming Global Environmental Governance: The Case for a United Nations Environment Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/WEO Biermann FINAL.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px dotted #ffc944; float: left;\" alt=\"WEO-Biermann-FINAL-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/sf\/images\/stories\/WEO-Biermann-FINAL-1.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"126\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>By Frank Biermann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This  paper makes the case for the establishment of a World Environment  Organisation. It traces the development of the debate for a WEO over the  past 40 years, and outlines the different models that have been  proposed. Biermann argues that the transformation of UNEP into a  Specialized Agency &#8211; either a World Environment Organisation or a UN  Environment Organisation &#8211; would follow a long-standing policy of  functional specialisation within the UN system and would significantly  enhance the authority of UNEP. Such a set-up would allow the negotiation  of environmental Treaties within &#8216;sub-committees&#8217; of the UNEO General  Assembly, which would then be adopted by the membership, thus moving  away from the current fragmented system of Multilateral Environmental  Agreements. It could also significantly enhance efficiency through the  development of common reporting frameworks across multiple environmental  regimes, thereby reducing the reporting burden on developing countries.  The development of a WEO is presented not as a &#8216;silver bullet&#8217; but as  an important building block for the enhanced effectiveness of earth  system governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank Biermann This paper makes the case for the establishment of a World Environment Organisation. It traces the development of the debate for a WEO over the past 40 years, and outlines the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdgthinkpieces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}