On 25-26 May 2011, the GEG project through the new Center for Governance and Sustainability co-organized a workshop in Ethiopia, entitled Rio 2012: Ethiopia’s Input to the Sustainability Summit, with the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre/Network at Addis Ababa University. The other co-sponsors were the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and the two civil society organizations Forum for Environment and Ethiopian Wildlife and [...]

A new Center for Governance and Sustainability will be launched on Monday, 28 March 2011, at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Co-directed by Professors Craig Murphy and Maria Ivanova of the McCormack Graduate School Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance, the new center will be ”Linking analytical rigor and policy action in environmental, development and sustainability governance globally through [...]

For the first time since its composition in October 2010, the Civil Society Advisory Group on International Environmental Governance (IEG) had a full-day meeting in person in the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi on 18 February. The Advisory Group, co-chaired by Negusu Aklilu from Ethiopia (GEG Forum Emerging Leader) and Arthur Dahl from Switzerland, includes several GEG [...]

Members of the GEG team have just arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, where a busy week of UNEP conferences is just about to start. A full-day meeting with the Civil Society Advisory Group on International Environmental Governance will be held 18 February, followed by the Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF) on 19-20 February, which [...]

Ethiopia’s First National Forum on International Environmental Governance took place 14 September 2010 at the Addis Ababa University. Sponsored by the GEG Project and organized by the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network, the overall objective of the workshop was to raise awareness on IEG issues in Ethiopia, and to mobilize effective commitment [...]