IISD releases two papers by Najam and Munoz on Global Governance

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Range Future, and Dr. Miquel Munoz, post-doc Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future authored a set of two briefing papers on the global environmental governance for the Pardee Center partner, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

The first briefing papers is titled “Tracking Global Environental Financing – A Proposal“ and outline a proposal for the establishment of a mechanism to track global environmental financing as a means to increase transparency, enhance efficiency and improve coordination and management of financial flows related to global environmental governance.

The proposed mechanism, the Global Environmental Financing Tracking Register (GEFT register) is a Web-based instrument that would allow sorting environmental financing by issue, by source and by recipient. The GEFT register would be designed to be transparent, user-friendly, easily accessible, up to date, voluntary and scaleable, while minimizing the reporting burden by building on existing processes.

The second paper is titled “4 Steps for Targeted Coherence” outlines a set of practical proposals to enhance inter-agency coherence on environmental issues. In particular, it seeks to identify ways in which the UN Environmental Management Group (EMG) can be reformed to increase the coherence of the Global Environmental Governance (GEG) system. The proposals in this paper are premised on the idea that not everything needs to be coordinated all the time,
and it is far more effective to focus our energies on those issues and activities where interagency coherence is most needed or likely to produce the most desirable results.