Coloring the UN Environmental: The Catalytic Role of the UN Environment Programme
2020
Professor Maria Ivanova discusses the global environmental challenges that have intensified in recent years and the need for global responses that are ever more urgent.
Article
Seeking Global Action on Plastics
2020
In this article, Senior Research Fellow Niko Urho and Research Associate Meg Hassey discuss the history of global action for plastic waste and possibilities for the future.
Report
International Environmental Governance Workshop: Stockholm+50 and UNEP Governance
2020
The workshop built on the outcomes of a series of IEG workshops that the government of Switzerland had convened over the past 10 years, with the most recent being June 2018.
Peer Reviewed
Fighting Fire with a Thermometer? Environmental Efforts of the United Nations
2020
Center Director Maria Ivanova publishes a new article in "The United Nations at Seventy-Five: Looking Back to Look Forward" that discusses the environmental efforts of the United Nations.
Article
We Must Address Exotic Wildlife Consumption to Avoid the Next Global Pandemic
2020
Read the new article from Dr Maria Ivanova and doctoral student Candace Famiglietti: We Must Address Exotic Wildlife Consumption to Avoid the Next Global Pandemic.
Peer Reviewed
Global Leadership on Climate-Linked Human Insecurity: Learning from Pacific Island States
2020
Center Director Maria Ivanova and coauthors explore the vulnerability of Pacific Island states and what other countries can learn from them.
Interview
A spotlight on the impact of the wildlife trade
2020
Professor Maria Ivanova and Candace Famiglietti detail the very serious consequences of the international wildlife trade.
Article
Interconnected world needs ways to turn alarm bells into action
2020
Center Director, Maria Ivanova publishes a new article with Amy Luers on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacy of 20th-century global governance.
Interview
High fashion, high risk - Overnights Podcast
2020
Research Associate, Candace Famiglietti, and Professor Maria Ivanova discuss High Fashion, High Risk. Check out the interview trending at #1 in UMass Boston news.
Interview
The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward - Episode 2, with Maria Ivanova
2020
Marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the UN, Maria Ivanova discusses the UN's efforts on climate change, focusing on the role of UNEP as an anchor institution on these issues.
Report
Future Earth: Risks Perceptions Report 2020
2020
Center Director Maria Ivanova served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, which published this Risks Perceptions Report by Future Earth in 2020.
Article
Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade
2020
Center Director Maria Ivanova and Research Associate Candace Famiglietti identify the governance and human security needs within the global wildlife trade.
