Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

Index

Index Abkhazia, 240 Access and benefit sharing, 53, 55, 60, 62, 254 Accountability, 11, 12, 75, 139, 140, 273, 274, 275 Africa, 102, 109, 229, 243, 246, 247 Agenda, 21, 104, 128–129, 250 Alliance of Small Island States, 181, 186 American Carbon Registry, 157 Amnesty International, 255 Angola, 246 Argentina, 182, 209 Asia, 102, 229 Australia, 162, 182–183 Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes, 56, 57 Beck, Ulrich, 87 Beijing Consensus, 246 Belarus, 230 Belgium, 205 Bernstein, Steven, 177 Biodiversity governance, 69, 77–78, 110, 189–190, 206–207, 210, 222–224, 226, 230 multilevel, 227 subnational, 228 Biodiversity protection, 15, 187, 190, 226 Biodiversity regime, 52, 60, 97, 180, 190 Bolivia, 105, 108 Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 131 Business actors, 6, 8, 14, 16, 27, 45–48, 55–63, 125–127, 103–104, 128, 139, 241, 254–255, 265–266 aerosol industry, 50 air-conditioning and refrigeration industry, 51–52 biotechnology companies, 53 chemical firms/industry, 50, 52 Croplife International, 54 Global Industry Coalition, 53–54, 60 grain traders, 54 International Grain Trade Coalition, 54 pharmaceutical companies, 55, 60 Public Research and Regulation Initiative, 54 Brazil, 55, 60 Brent Spar, 7, 47 Brundtland Report, 104, 132 Bureaucracies. See International bureaucracies Bush, George W., 79 Canada, 56, 103, 109, 156, 181, 182, 183, 207, 109 government, 56 New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG–ECP) Climate Change Action Plan, 149, 154 294 Index provinces, 150, 151, 155 West Coast Governors Association, 155 Cap-and-trade schemes, 154, 156, 158 Carbon credits, 157, 158 emission-trading, 151, 155, 166 markets, 151, 153, 156–158, 160, 162, 165–166, 249 sinks, 180, 186–187 tax, 254 Carbon Disclosure Project, 152 Carbon Rationing Action Groups, 151 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 15, 53–55, 60, 176, 182–183, 187– 188, 207. See also Convention on Biological Diversity Biosafety Clearing-House, 184 Central and Eastern European countries, 220–225, 227–228, 230–231 Certification schemes, 102, 113, 158, 160, 162, 265. See also Forest Stewardship Council China, 243–246, 251, 254, 256 development assistance, 246. (see also Development assistance) environmental governance, 245 GMO policy, 203–204, 206–208, 214 institutions, 244, 246 Ministry of Civil Affairs, 245 Ministry of Environmental Protection, 245 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), 50–51 emissions, 51 producers, 50–52, users, 50–52 national restrictions, 51 Civil society, 11–12, 126, 154, 163, 219, 220, 245, 256, 269 Clean Development Mechanism, 151, 156, 157–158, 180–181, 186–187, 245, 254 Climate action networks, 154 Climate Action Reserve, 157 Climate change, 46, 70, 73, 78–80, 82, 83–84, 86, 88, 149, 150, 152–154, 156, 158–159, 161–163, 165–166, 180, 185, 249, 269, 273 Climate change advocacy, 154 Climate governance or policy, 14, 77, 153, 156, 244 Climate regime, 69, 97, 179–180, 185–187, 190 Climate Registry, 157 Club of Rome, 132 Commission on Global Governance, 4 Commission on Sustainable Development. See United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Consumers, 47, 110, 114 Convention on Biological Diversity, 8, 33–34, 53–55, 53, 159, 176, 180, 186, 254 conference of the parties, 53, 181, 182 negotiations, 55 scientific expert groups, 85 secretariat, 182 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), 254 Corporate social responsibility, 160 Czech Republic, 220, 223–227, 230 Deforestation and forest degradation, 104, 180–181 Denmark, 76, 205, 211 Developed countries. See Industrialized countries Developing countries, 58, 87, 108, 138, 139, 142, 179–180, 182, 191, 200, 239, 241–242, 246, 251, 268–269 GMOs, 15, 202, 206, 214 least developing countries, 139, 142, 242–243, 246, 251, 253– 254 Canada (cont.) Index 295 Development assistance, 9, 240-241, 246, 251 Development funding. See Development assistance Dingwerth, Klaus, 138 Dupont, 50–51 Earth System, 273, 276, 277 Earth System Governance Project, 39, 276 Ecological economics, 70 Economic/financial crisis, 46, 63 Ecosystem, 187, 222, 228–230, 273 Ecuador, 108 Emission trading, 14, 179, 186 Energy Charter Treaty, 58 English School, 98 Environmental protection, 46, 57, 63 Environmentalist groups, 60, 79, 82, 103, 154, 164, 185, 245, 254 Europe, 4, 50–51, 102, 108–109, 211–212, 244, 272 governments, 205 regional integration, 219 European Union (EU), 30, 34, 80–81, 179–182, 185–186, 189–191, 220–221, 223, 226, 228, 230, 242, 251, 254, 272 Commission, 30, 107, 204, 210– 212, 228 Court of Justice, 211 and developing countries, 188 directives, 220 emission trading...