Dear Colleagues: In preparation for the 26th Governing Council of the UN Environment Programme (to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 21-25 February 2011), the recently created civil society Advisory Group on International Environmental Governance <http://www.environmentalgovernance.org/featured/2010/12/reform/cs/ag> is working on a background document to be presented to governments. The document seeks to address five key questions posed by UNEP's Executive Director, Achim Steiner:
1. Why should international environmental governance reform be of interest to developing countries? What are the relevant outcomes? 2. Why is incremental reform not enough? Why is fundamental reform of international environmental governance necessary? 3. Why should the world believe in and support the United Nations, when multilateralism is not delivering results? 4. Why strengthen the UN Environment Programme when environment should be everyone's responsibility and integrated into all other UN programmes and agencies? 5. What are some effective and/or promising models for engaging civil society in the work of the United Nations on the environment? The Advisory Group will be producing short (2-3pp) answers to each of these questions and invites short (2-3 paragraphs) contributions from academics and researchers. If you are interested in contributing to any of these questions, please send your input in the form of a short write-up with footnote format for references to [email protected]. Please indicate clearly which question you are contributing to. All inputs need to be received by January 8, 2011. We will also accept published work on any of these topics for a reference library for governments. Kind regards, Maria Maria Ivanova, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Global Governance Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston MA 02125-3393 phone: +1 617 287 7263 mobile: +1 203 606 4640 [email protected] http://www.disres.umb.edu/Ivanova.php Director, Global Environmental Governance Project Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.environmentalgovernance.org <http://environmentalgovernance.org/>
