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Northeastern University 2025 Sustainability Innovation Week

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A new global agreement to prevent plastic pollution

Possible elements of a new global agreement to prevent plastic pollution

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Financing International Environmental Governance: Lessons from the United Nations Environment Programme

Financing International Environmental Governance: Lessons from the United Nations Environment Programme

Peer Reviewed

Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

Leadership Dialogues

Environmental Envoy - Interview with Achim Steiner

Environmental Envoy - Interview with Achim Steiner

Issue Briefs

Overcoming Fragmented Governance:
The Case of Climate Change and the MDGs

Overcoming Fragmented Governance: The Case of Climate Change and the MDGs

Issue Briefs

UNDP: Reviving a Practical Human Development Organization

UNDP: Reviving a Practical Human Development Organization

Peer Reviewed

At 50, the UN Environment Programme must lead again

At 50, the UN Environment Programme must lead again

Peer Reviewed

Collective foresight and intelligence for sustainability

Collective foresight and intelligence for sustainability

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Global Environmental Governance: Quest for Leadership

Quest for Leadership

Leadership Dialogues

Biotechnology Trailblazer - Interview with Hayat Sindi

Biotechnology Trailblazer - Interview with Hayat Sindi

Article

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste?

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste?

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Conversations with Environmental Leaders

Conversations with Environmental Leaders

Report

National Implementation of Global Environmental...

National Implementation of Global Environmental Agreements in Rwanda

Peer Reviewed

Fighting Fire with a Thermometer? Environmental Efforts of the United Nations

Fighting Fire with a Thermometer? Environmental Efforts of the United Nations

Leadership Dialogues

Wildlife Advocate - Interview with John Scanlon

Wildlife Advocate - Interview with John Scanlon

Issue Briefs

The Power of Policy: Reinforcing the Paris Trajectory

The Power of Policy: Reinforcing the Paris Trajectory

Issue Briefs

Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals: Moving Beyond Women as a “Quick Fix” for Development

Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals: Moving Beyond Women as a "Quick Fix" for Development

Leadership Dialogues

Sea Change Scholar - Interview with Susan Avery

Sea Change Scholar - Interview with Susan Avery

Peer Reviewed

Coloring the UN Environmental: The Catalytic Role of the UN Environment Programme

Global Governance

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Documentary: Small States Beyond Plastics

UNEA-5.2: Juliet Kabera, Maria Ivanova, and Patrick Umuhoza

Leadership Dialogues

UN System Scholar - Interview with Lorraine Elliot

UN System Scholar - Interview with Lorraine Elliot

Issue Briefs

Environmental Emergencies: Challenges and Lessons
for International Environmental Governance

Environmental Emergencies: Challenges and Lessons for International Environmental Governance

Report

International Environmental Governance: Implementing Reform

International Environmental Governance: Implementing Reform

Leadership Dialogues

Climate Champion - Interview with Christiana Figures

Climate Champion - Interview with Christiana Figures

Report

Commitment Platforms and the Global Agenda for Chemicals and Waste Management

Commitment Platforms and the Global Agenda for Chemicals and Waste Management

Peer Reviewed

Sustaining peace through better resource governance

Sustaining peace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding

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Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade

Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade

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The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward - Episode 2, with Maria Ivanova

The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward, Episode 2, with Maria Ivanova

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Lessons from the Multilateral Trading System for Reforming the Architecture of the International Environmental Regime

Lessons from the Multilateral Trading System for Reform of the Agricultural of the International Environmental Regime

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High fashion, high risk - Overnights Podcast

High fashion, high risk

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Workshop on International Environmental Governance:
Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous Analysis

Workshop on International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous Analysis

Interview

A spotlight on the impact of the wildlife trade

A spotlight on the impact of the wildlife trade

Peer Reviewed

Toward a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands

Toward a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands

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Sustainable Finance Visionary - Interview with Rachel Kyte

Sustainable Finance Visionary - Interview with Rachel Kyte

Peer Reviewed

Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice

Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice

Leadership Dialogues

Fighting for the Future - Minister Vincent Biruta

Fighting for the Future - Minister Vincent Biruta

Leadership Dialogues

Naturalist and Novelist - Interview with Stanley Johnson

Stanley Johnson, novelist

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International Fisheries Governance that Works: The Case for a Global Fisheries Organization

International Fisheries Governance that Works: The Case for a Global Fisheries Organization

Issue Briefs

How the United Nations Should Promote the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Brief 10

Leadership Dialogues

Pioneer Chemist - Interview with Reiko Kuroda

Pioneer Chemist - Interview with Reiko Kuroda

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Options for effective governance of the Beyond-2020 Framework for sound management of chemicals and waste: Lessons learned from other regimes

Options for effective governance of the Beyond-2020 Framework for sound management of chemicals and waste: Lessons learned from other regimes

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Enhancing Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development: Function-Oriented Options

Enhancing Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development: Function-Oriented Options

Issue Briefs

Building an International Court for the Environment: A Conceptual Blueprint

Building an International Court for the Environment: A Conceptual Blueprint

Leadership Dialogues

Environmentalist Extraordinaire - James Gustave (Gus) Speth

Environmentalist Extraordinaire - Interview with James Gustave (Gus) Speth

Leadership Dialogues

Champion for Change - Interview with Erik Solheim

Champion for Change - Interview with Erik Solheim

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Clustering Assessment:
Enhancing Synergies among Multilateral
Environmental Agreements

Clustering Assessment: Enhancing Synergies among Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Report

Future Earth: Risks Perceptions Report 2020

Future Earth: Risks Perceptions Report 2020

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International Environmental Governance: Accomplishments and Way Forward

International Environmental Governance: Accomplishments and Way Forward

Issue Briefs

Energy Transitions to Modern Renewables

Energy Transitions to Modern Renewables: Context, Barriers, and Promises

Video

Global Environmental Governance: Quest for Symphony

Global Environmental Governance: Quest for Symphony

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Interconnected world needs ways to turn alarm bells into action

Research Professional News

Peer Reviewed

Global Leadership on Climate-Linked Human Insecurity: Learning from Pacific Island States

Global Leadership on Climate-Linked Human Insecurity: Learning from Pacific Island States

Article

We Must Address Exotic Wildlife Consumption to Avoid the Next Global Pandemic

We Must Address Exotic Wildlife Consumption to Avoid the Next Global Pandemic

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The Untold Story of the U.N. Environment Program

The Untold Story of the U.N. Environment Program

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International Environmental Governance Workshop: Stockholm+50 and UNEP Governance

Maria Ivanova, Niko Urho, Anna Dubrova

Article

Seeking Global Action on Plastics

Seeking Global Action on Plastic

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Activities and Achievements - Progress Report 2014-2015

Activities and Achievements - Progress Report 2014-2015

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Activities and Achievements - Progress Report 2011-2013

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