Resources

Study Notes on Global Environmental Governance

Study Note 1. Global environmental problems facing the world today: selected sources of information (updated 8 August 2025)

Study Note 2. Existing international organizations, international treaties and other international institutional arrangements in the field of the environment: an overview (updated 9 August 2025)

Additional Study Notes will be published in due course. The themes covered by the additional notes will include the following:

  • United Nations system and global environmental governance
  • Development of international environmental law
  • Intergovernmental negotiations to prepare multilateral environmental agreements
  • Intergovernmental process to develop international environmental policies
  • Means of implementation of internationally agreed environmental goals and policies 
  • Global governance and the global environment
  • Reconsidering institutions for global environmental governance