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

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 brief argues for a new global fisheries organization that could serve the core functions of coordinating institutional participants in international fisheries governance, addressing the crisis of overcapitalization and overcapacity in the fishing industry, and overseeing a system of international individual transferable quotas.

As States move towards the ‘sharp end’ of the Rio 20+ negotiations, this brief analyzes some of the risks and benefits of the identified options for the reform of international environmental governance and offer pragmatic ideas on how to make the best use of existing resources and structures.

This brief examines the strengths and weaknesses of existing instruments and institutions and addresses the efforts to improve coordination among the international sectors of environmental emergency response

This brief examines the relationship between institutional form and funding and offers insights into innovative financing.

The Center published a summary report for the Workshop on International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous Analysis held in June 2011.

This brief compares the needs and goals of the trade and environment regimes, and discusses how insights from over sixty years of experience of the multilateral trading system might provide ideas for redesigning the architecture of the international environmental regime.

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

A compilation of videos reflecting the work on of the Project.

This brief argues the way forward to fulfilling the MDGs and coming to grips with climate change is yo launch programmatic initiatives focusing on adaptation to climate change and the transition to a green economy that appeal to many separate bodies as win-win opportunities.

The Quest for Symphony outlines the past, present, and future of global environmental governance in an engaging fifteen minute documentary centered on interviews with key participants at the 25th United Nations Environment Programme’s Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in February 2009. Produced by Maria Ivanova and Joe Ageyo, The Quest for Symphony has been called “the white paper on global environmental governance in images,” and is unique as a documentary focused solely on the challenges and successes of the GEG system and the options for reform.