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Northeastern University 2025 Sustainability Innovation Week

2025

Northeastern's Inaugural Sustainability Innovation week brought together faculty, students, and professionals to come up with solutions to the world's most pressing sustainability problems.

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Documentary: Small States Beyond Plastics

2024

Small States Beyond Plastics is a documentary that showcases the important role that small states have in creating meaningful change at the global level.

Peer Reviewed

Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice

2021

Senior Research Fellow, Stacy VanDeveer and Corey Johnson, explore Energy Regionalism in their new article, Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice, in the journal, Review of Policy Research.

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The Untold Story of the U.N. Environment Program

2021

In this comprehensive interview, Professor Maria Ivanova dives in the nuance of United Nations Environmental Programme and its place within Global Environmental Governance.

Peer Reviewed

Toward a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands

2021

In this article, Fellow Jack Whitacre and coauthors propose a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands, which is consistent with the 1982 World Charter for Nature.

Article

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste?

2021

In this article, Research Associate Meg Hassey and coauthors explore the role of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and how it can be used to address the plastic crisis.

Peer Reviewed

Collective foresight and intelligence for sustainability

2021

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."

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At 50, the UN Environment Programme must lead again

2021

Maria Ivanova publishes a new article in Nature that reflects on the past fifty years of the UN Environmental Programme. Ivanova reflects on UNEP's original vision and ways to move forward.

Peer Reviewed

Sustaining peace through better resource governance

2021

Senior Research Fellows, Stacy VanDeveer, Florian Krampea and Farah Hegazi, explore environmental peacebuilding and resource governance in the World Development Journal.

Report

Commitment Platforms and the Global Agenda for Chemicals and Waste Management

2021

This report explores opportunities to upscale ambition and action from a wide array of social actors and institutions, alongside governments, to effectively manage chemicals and waste.

Peer Reviewed

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

2020

Center Director, Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar--Pemberthy explore and evaluate environmental conventions through the Environmental Conventions Index, an implementation measurement tool.

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A new global agreement to prevent plastic pollution

2020

Senior Research Fellow, Niko Urho and Karen Raubenheimer suggest elements and approaches for a new global agreement covering the whole life cycle of plastics.

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