The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organizes the 12th Special Session of its Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) in Nairobi, Kenya from 20-22 February 2012. The ministerial consultations during the session will focus on emerging policy issues under the overall theme of “The environmental agenda in the changing world: from Stockholm 1972 to Rio 2012″. From 18-19 February, [...]

The Global Environmental Governance Project of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston has embarked upon a joint initiative with the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland and the World Trade Institute at the University of Berne to host a workshop on International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous [...]

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 [...]

The latest issue of The Point – News from the University of Massachusetts Boston, features some recent activities by the Global Environmental Governance Project. An article entitled ”UMass Boston Professor Discusses Governance at U.N. Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi” describes the participation of GEG Project Director Maria Ivanova with team members in the 26th UNEP Governing Council [...]

On the third day of the 26th Regular Session of the UNEP GC/GMEF, the focus for the world’s environment ministers gathered in the UN Office at Nairobi was the reform agenda for International Environmental Governance (IEG). Since the year 2000, a Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) is held annually in conjunction with the UNEP Governing Council (GC), [...]

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 [...]