On Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, the Hon. John Michuki, Kenya’s reform-driven environment minister, passed away. The minister, a hardworking and firm bureaucrat, succumbed to a heart attack in a Nairobi hospital just days after returning from treatment for a mild stroke in the United Kingdom. During the same week, the 12th Session of the Governing Council of UNEP was taking place [...]
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organized the 13th Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF-13) at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya on 18-19 February 2012. The Global Forum is an annual event organized right before the UNEP Governing Council, to provide an opportunity for civil society and other groups to exchange ideas and get [...]
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through its Major Groups and Stakeholders Branch (MGSB) and the Major Groups Facilitating Committee (MGFC), have initiated a process to revise the Guidelines for Participation of Major Groups and Stakeholders in Policy Design at UNEP. The UN Charter formally recognizes three categories of participants in the UN: (i) representatives of [...]
From 19-21 July 2011, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the UNCSD Secretariat organized a High Level Dialogue on the Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development in Solo, Indonesia. The event brought together most governments of the world, UN agencies and programmes, and some stakeholders concerned with sustainable development governance, for a discussion on [...]
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 [...]
