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Maria Ivanova and Candace Famiglietti detail the very serious consequences of the international wildlife trade.

In September 2013, the Center for Governance and Sustainability released its first progress report on activities and achievements since the Center’s founding in 2011.

The second Progress Report for 2014-2015 of the Center for Governance and Sustainability is now available. Three think pieces frame this report.

Center Director, Maria Ivanova publishes a new article in Nature reflecting on the past fifty years of UNEP. Ivanova reflects on UNEP's original vision and ways to move forward.

Hayat Sindi is cofounder of Diagnostics For All, a Massachusetts nonprofit that designs low-cost diagnostic devices to improve health services in developing countries

This Issue Brief considers the role and nature of existing and potential international dispute resolution fora in relation to international environmental law.

The primary focus is put on governance-related aspects within the reports, based on the case study of the Bulgarian World Heritage System.

Erik Solheim became the sixth Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme after an outstanding career as environment and development minister of Norway, chief mediator in the Sri Lanka peace talks, and head of the OECD Development Assistance Committee.

Christiana Figueres is the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She founded the non-profit Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas, and directed it for eight years (1995 – 2003).

This issue brief considers whether streamlining international environmental regimes by grouping or ‘clustering’ international agreements could improve effectiveness and efficiency.

Center Director, Maria Ivanova, along with Sylvia L. R. Wood, Amy Luers, Jennifer Garard, Ajay Gambhir, Kalpana Chaudhari, and Casey Cronin explore charting sustainable pathways that 'leaves no one behind' in their article in Global Sustainability.

Center Director, Maria Ivanova, discusses the global challenges—from the climate crisis to health epidemics—that intensified in recent years and the need for a global responses that has become ever more urgent and important.