January 24, 2012 marked the beginning of the six-day long World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The 12th Annual meeting, organized by NGOs,social movements and citizens associations from all over the world, intentionally opened at the same time as the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. WSF held its first open meeting in 2001 [...]
The French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transportation and Housing and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs will host the conference, “Towards New Global Governance for the Environment,” which will take place in Paris, France on January 30-31, 2012. The conference is organized in conjunction with the Economic, Social and Environmental Council and the Strategic [...]
The Thor Heyerdahl Summer School at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas, Norway will be offering a free summer course called Global Environmental Governance from June 25th until July 6th, 2012. The course is open to PhD candidates and young researches in the field. The intensive course will focus on the developing field [...]
‘Quest for Leadership’ recounts the story of environmental governance through the eyes of the individuals who created and led national and international institutions for environment and development.
Produced by Maria Ivanova and Joe Ageyo, The Quest for Symphony has been called “the white paper on global environmental governance in images.
On 29 June 2009, the GEG Project convened a historic reunion of all five successive Executive Directors of the United Nations Environment Programme at the Global Environmental Governance Forum in Glion, Switzerland.
January 24, 2012 marked the beginning of the six-day long World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The 12th Annual meeting, organized by NGOs,social movements and citizens associations from all over the world, intentionally opened at the same time as the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. WSF held its first open meeting in 2001 [...]
On Friday, January 20, 2011, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan will co-host a dialogue on “Cures for Climate Confusion: Breaking Through in Our Neighborhoods and the Nation” at an internet-based national town hall meeting broadcast live from the University of Michigan in [...]
Professor Anamarija Frankic will represent the Center for Governance and Sustainability and the University of Massachusetts Boston at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). COP 17 is being held in Durban, South Africa Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2011. The conference is also the 7th Session [...]
The Berne workshop on International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous Analysis was a joint initiative of the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland, the Global Environmental Governance Project of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the World Trade Institute at the University of Berne. The workshop took place on 26-28 June 2011, and [...]
The Global Environmental Governance Project has embarked on an exciting new initiative — an Academic Council on Global Environmental Governance (AC/GEG). The project is a collaboration with the The Center for Law and Global Affairs at Arizona State University College of Law, and the Academic Council on the United Nations system. The Council seeks to [...]
Mark Halle. Published by International Institute for Sustainable Development, October 2007
