Dr. Munoz Delivers Keynote at Nordic IEG Event

Dr. Miquel Munoz, post-doctoral fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center For the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was invited as a keynote speaker to discuss system-wide strategies and frameworks at an event on International Environmental Governance organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

The event, held at the International Peace Institute in New York, in the context of ongoing Rio+20 negotiations, was attended by over sixty representatives from countries and UN agencies and addressed questions such as how to enhance coordination and coherence in the UN system, how to bridge the normative and operational aspects of environmental governance, and how to promote close cooperation and synergies among the multilateral environmental agreements.

In his presentation, Dr. Munoz outlined the key elements of a proposed Global Registry of Commitments on Sustainable Development, defining it as a doable instrument that can be agreed upon at Rio+20 and will help eradicate the culture of unaccountability that pervades the system of global governance for sustainable development.