World environment agency would ease chaos, says study

Reuters | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 | Reuters

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

World environment agency would ease chaos, says study

Tuesday, April 02, 2002
By Reuters

UNITED NATIONS — A new world environment organization and an international environmental court would help make sense of the more than 500 environmental agreements and agencies now operating around the globe, researchers said recently.

Legal and environmental experts from the Tokyo-based U.N. University called on a U.N. development summit opening in Johannesburg in August to weigh creating a global body with powers over the environment similar to those of the World Trade Organization over international trade.

Their report said environmental regulation has emerged in an ad hoc and somewhat chaotic fashion over the past 30 years due to "the essentially random emergence of environmental issues onto national and international political agendas."

The soaring number of global environmental institutions argues strongly that the current system of international environmental governance is "too complicated (and) steadily getting worse," the experts said

They acknowledged that giving teeth to a new global agency was one of the most controversial aspects of the debate as governments are reluctant to turn over their powers to an outside body that could rule against them.

But "one of the core benefits to be offered by a judicial settlement system is that it could bring a much greater level of predictability to international environmental governance by ending serious violations of international environmental law regardless of the perpetrator," their report argued. In addition, problems like global warming and pollution simply transcend national interests, they said.

Report contributors included Steve Charnovitz of the U.S. law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; Peter Haas of the University of Massachusetts; Sebastian Oberthur of Berlin-based Ecologic; and Joost Pauwelyn of the World Trade Organization.

Copyright 2002, Reuters

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

They acknowledged that giving teeth to a new global agency was one of the most controversial aspects of the debate as governments are reluctant to turn over their powers to an outside body that could rule against them

since when has that ever bothered the un cant you see it now the un checking to make sure the us is not polluting to much I am sure they would try to suck money from us by heavy fines for what they see as violations

[WOSG]

World Government Alert! ... this idea is more globaloney.

[c-b 1]

Just what we need, another UN agency full of jealous, America haters, funded with your tax dollars.

[RightWhale]

an international environmental court

One thing at a time. After the Red Sox win the World Series, then we'll take a look at this World Court, not that it is any more than a pipe dream.

[Myrddin]

The environmental nazis have done a fair amount of damage to the US within the bounds of our own legal system. The land grabbing, fines and loss of sovereignity that an international environmental court would impose is boggling. Our ability to reject the Kyoto treaty would be overruled by such an institution.

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Looking for something to "ease" the chaos in my brain!!

[MeekOneGOP]

NWO = No Way ‘Ose

[headsonpikes]

"Legal and environmental experts..."

Translation: predators, scavengers, and parasites...

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IT'S YOUR CHOICE ! Helping to Make Sustainability a Reality.  Workshop, 20 February 2002

NEW: Briefing for Participation in Earth Summit 2002

 

Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future

UNED Forum has changed its name to ‘Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future’ as of January 1, 2002. The new name expresses the character and central purpose of this dynamic initiative to support international civil society organisations concerned with sustainable development. It includes organisations representing all the major groups recognised by the UN including business, labour, parliamentarians, local government, NGOs, indigenous peoples, women, youth, farmers and scientists.

Felix Dodds, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum, said:

“This name recalls the vision of the ground-breaking Brundtland Report: ‘Our Common Future’, which in 1987 established the foundation for all future work on sustainable development. The new name also builds on the work of Chip Lindner, Ashok Khosla and the Centre for Our Common Future, which did so much to promote sustainable development and the vision of the Brundtland report at and around the time of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992."

Both the Brundtland Report and the work of the Centre attached great importance to engaging stakeholders of all kinds in promoting sustainable development in order to make it a reality. Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future will be developing this idea further. It is supporting a wide range of stakeholder activity in the preparations for this years Earth Summit in Johannesburg. It is also organizing a major stakeholder conference in Johannesburg the week before the Summit: Implementation Conference - Stakeholder Action for Our Common Future, which will promote practical collaborative stakeholder action, programmes and projects for helping to implement global agreements on sustainability.

“I am proud that we are able to take up the baton from the former Centre for our Common Future." said Dodds. “As we head into a critical year which will include the International Conference on Financing for Development [Monterrey, Mexico], the World Food Summit Review [Rome], and the World Summit on Sustainable Development [Johannesburg], the active participation of all stakeholders will be critical."

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director of the World Health Organization [WHO], formerly Prime Minister of Norway and chair of the UN Commission which produced the 1987 report, said:

“I congratulate UNED Forum on the extensive work it has undertaken. The promotion of a healthy environment requires the active involvement of, and commitment by, all stakeholders. I find it particularly encouraging to see the growth of UNED from what was essentially a nationally based entity into a truly international force for environment and development. I am honoured that you would choose this title.”

UNED Forum was established two years ago as an international initiative by UNED-U.K. UNED-UK, which acts as the UK National Committee for UNEP and UNDP and supports the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, has been active over many years in promoting UK stakeholder engagement with international sustainable development work. The basic concept of the Forum has been to extend this kind of multi-stakeholder engagement to the international level so that international stakeholder groups can interact more deeply, effectively and co-operatively with international sustainable development meetings and processes. The work of the Forum is guided by a broadly-based International Advisory Board, and serviced by the staff of UNED-UK.

The United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland provides the secretariat for Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future.

Since 1998, we have been building our work around preparing for Earth Summit 2002. Within that remit, we work in the following areas:

	Building partnerships and networks
	Researching and influencing policy
	Providing and spreading information
	Training and building capacity

Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future operates both in the UK and internationally. Learn more about Stakeholder Forum and UNED-UK.

NEW: Earth Summit 2002. A New Deal. 2nd Edition out now!

NEW BOOK: Multi-Stakeholder Processes For Governance and Sustainability - Beyond Deadlock and Conflict. By Minu Hemmati

 

Special Web-Sites			Plus
Towards Earth Summit 2002  Roadmap to 2002   Gender Perspectives for Earth Summit 2002   Stakeholder Toolkit for Women	UK Preparations for Earth Summit 2002   Stakeholder Action For Our Common Future: Implementation Conference, August 2002   Multi-stakeholder Processes   NGOs & Freshwater	City Life A multimedia initiative about the impact of globalization on the urban environment   Copenhagen+5	UNED's Picture Gallery NEW: A Day of Fun in August 2001

 

 

Contact UNED Forum info@earthsummit2002.org

[MadRobotArtist]

Four words to all of those wackos who want this to go through. Go to F-cking Hell. If I wanted to live in a global society, it sure as hell isn't going to be at my expense. What a LIE!!! F-ck You Koffi, and F-ck you UN Global Government Watchdog agency. I hope that the people of my great nation wake up and tell you all the same. These socialist bastards need to go rot in their third world toilets. I hope that an exceptionally virulent strain of common sense strikes our people so we can wake up from this commie pinko nightmare.

[Brett66]

A tyrannical global agency can solve the worlds problems. Whoda thunk it?

[Carry_Okie]

World environment agency would ease chaos, says (UN) study

Let me see, there must be something appropriate that I can say here...

HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!!!

There. That about does it.

[glock rocks]

people are dropping in the streets. alert. alert. sacrifice your sovereignty,
disavow capitalism, accept our control, pay our bills
you are getting very sleepy... sleepy...

lock and load.
a fundamental question in econ 101... who pays for clean air?

well, duh... a free market economy does a better job than a herd, yes herd of marxist
eco-wannabees on a power trip. screw em.

[GhostofWCooper]

I'll say one thing for the globalistas, they never get tired. They never run out of gas, it's push, push, in all directions til something starts to give.

If the rank and file Americans don't wake up soon, we'll be just a little piece of a global communist society. The ones picking up the tab for the unwashed, disease ridden, flea bag third worlders..

Get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US.

[Phil V.]

Here is an interesting article from the Jerusalem Post. If you should choose to read it, please, read carefully. You may (are likely) to initially be put off by what at first appears to be boiler plate anti-Semitic themes. But the author's point (very cogent warning IMHO) is that there is a danger of inflaming anti-Semitism by the very high profile "heal the earth" tikun olam aspect of liberal/left Judaism is foisting around the globe. Read carefully.

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The Jewish neurosis

Again I wish to emphasize that while I bring this article to this thread I AM NOT saying, implying, hinting, suggesting that wako environmental globalism is a "Jew thing"(wink wink). There are many players in the environmental movement. Tikun olam is just one of "stake holders".

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