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Adil Najam
Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
Department of International Relations
Boston University

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Introduction

[World Organizations] are credited with an importance they do not possess; they are blamed for not doing what they are not given the means to do; faults that are often imaginary are ascribed to them, while their real faults go unnoticed; mythical explanations are invented to explain their ineffectiveness; and finally, there is very little recognition of the few significant results that they do achieve. „ MAURICE BERTRAND (1989) The premise of this essay is that the current debate about global environmental governance with its dominant focus on establishing a super-organization for the environment, represents a serious misdiagnosis of the issues, is patently unfair to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and could be outright dangerous in its implications and impacts.

 

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