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Surdna Foundation
New York, New York
April 2002
The sixth and most recent Global Environmental Governance Dialogue convened on April 17-18,
2002, in New York City. The meeting was sponsored by Yale Center for Environmental
Law and Policy as well as the State of the World Forum/Commission on Globalization
and Globus Institute for Globalization and Sustainability. Thirty-two international
environmental governance and development experts from fifteen nations came together
to discuss the shortcomings of the current global environmental governance regime as
well as desired components of a strengthened system. The group also discussed the
potential formation of a Global Environmental Mechanism (GEM) Policy Action Group to
join the other action groups of the newly formed
Commission on Globalization
a "dialogue-and-action" organization engaging international experts across sectors in
thinking through the globalization process and working to implement global governance
policy changes.
The priority topics discussed during the meeting can be organized within four broad
streams of options for global environmental governance reform. These include
1) improvement of the collection and dissemination of environmental information;
2) strengthening of environmental technology transfer between the North and South
and throughout the world; 3) establishment of new financing sources and mechanisms
to fund sustainable development and environmental protection projects throughout
the world; and 4) creation of an international forum - physical and/or virtual -
to serve as a space for global environmental norm-setting and negotiations. The
group decided that launching information or technology reform initiatives may be
the best starting point for reforming the global environmental governance system.
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