CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
UN DSD ESA: United Nations Division for Sustainable Development; Department of Economic and Social Affairs: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/ > UN ESA DSD: Major Agreement & Conventions: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/resources/res_majoagreconvover.shtml
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme: Nairobi-Kenya: www.unep.org > UNEP IEG International Environmental Governance: www.unep.org/ieg
UNCED: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: AGENDA 21, EARTH SUMMIT 1992: UN Conference on Environment and Development 1992, Rio de Janeiro: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development: http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html > http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992: http://unfccc.int > Text of the Convention: http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/items/6036.php > Clean Development Mechanism: http://cdm.unfccc.int/index.html
GEF: Global Environment Facility: http://www.thegef.org
WMO: World Meteorological Organization: working together in weather, climate and water: WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations: WMO contribute to achieving the MDGs in collaboration with partners, in particular with respect to MDGs 1 (eradicate extreme poverty and hunger) and MDGs 7 (Ensure environmental sustainability): WMO, Geneva-Switzerland: http://www.wmo.ch > http://www.wmo.int/pages/index_en.html > http://www.wmo.int/pages/themes/water/index_en.html > http://www.wmo.int/pages/themes/climate/index_en.php > http://www.wmo.int/pages/partners/index_en.html > http://www.wmo.int/pages/members/membership/index_en.html
WCRP: World Climate Research Programme: Water, Energy and Climate: WCRP c/o World Meteorological Organization: WCRP, Geneva-Switzerland: http://www.wcrp-climate.org/ > http://www.wcrp-climate.org/waterclim.shtml
IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Secretariat: WMO & UNEP: c/o World Meteorological Organization: Geneva-Switzerland: http://www.ipcc.ch/
IEA: International Energy Agency: is an autonomous organisation, 28 member countries: http://www.iea.org > http://www.iea.org/country/index.asp >> worldwide engagement for sustainable energy strategies: http://www.iea.org/Papers/2010/worldwide_engagement.pdf
CONFERENCES, PROTOCOLE, MANDATE, SOMMET
Conférence des Nations Unies sur l´Environnement Humain, Stockholm 1972 ; Our Common Future, Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development-WCED, published in 1987, Brundtland Report ; Conférence des Nations Unies sur l´Environnement et le Développement, Rio de Janeiro 1992 –Agenda 21; Convention-Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques CCNUCC, Rio 1992 ; UNFCCC/COP Conference of the Parties, Berlin 1995, The Berlin Mandate, Protocole de Kyoto À la Convention – Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques, Kyoto 1997, Nations Unies 1998 ; Sommet Mondial sur le Développement Durable Johannesburg 2002 ; Kyoto Protocol, Accra Report 2008; The United Nations Climate Change Climate Summit in Copenhagen, December 2009 ; RIO + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio de Janeiro-Brazil 2012.
ONU COP [Conference des Parties des Nations Unies est l’organe directeur/supreme des certaines conventions internationales].
CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS (COP: Conference of the Parties; CMP/MOP-serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol-: Meeting of the Parties): COP 18 MOP8, 2012 ; COP 17 CMP/MOP7, 2011, Durban, South Africa ; COP 16 CMP/MOP6 2010, Cancun, Mexico ; COP 15 CMP/MOP5 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark ; COP 14 CMP/MOP4 2008, Poznan, Poland ; COP 13 CMP/MOP3 2007, Bali, Indonesia ; COP 12 CMP/MOP2 2006, Nairobi, Kenya ; COP 11 CMP/MOP1 2005, Montreal, Canada ; COP 10 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; COOP 9 2003, Milan, Italy ; COP 8 2002, New Delhi, India ; COP 7 2001, Marrakech, Germany ; COP 6 2001, bis Bonn, Germany ; COP 6 2000, The Hague, Netherlands ; COP 5 1999, Bonn, Germany ; COP 4 1998, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; COP 3 1997, The Kyoto Protocole on Climate Change ; COP 2 1996, Geneva, Switzerland ; COP 1 1995, The Berlin Mandate: http://www.unccd.int/cop/cop10/menu.php > http://www.unccd.int/cop/officialdocs/menu.php > http://www.cop17-cmp7durban.com/
MEA’s
Multilateral Environmental Agreements: different sources: relations WTO and MEA rules, the DOHA mandate on MEA’s: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/dda_e.htm#development > http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/mindecl_e.htm > http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/envir_e/envir_neg_mea_e.htm >>>> UNEP, negotiating and Implementing MEA’s, A Manual for NGO’s: http://www.unep.org/dec/docs/MEAs%20Final.pdf > UNEP, Division of Environmental Law & conventions MEA’s: http://www.unep.org/dec/links/index.html >> IISD Linkages: MEA Bulletin: http://www.iisd.ca/email/mea-l.htm >>>>> http://iklim.cob.gov.tr/iklim/Files/eKutuphane/negotiators_handbook.pdf
CONVENTIONS
UN Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, New York, 9 May 1992: http://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetailsIII.aspx?&src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVII~7&chapter=27&Temp=mtdsg3&lang=en > http://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20II/Chapter%20XXVII/XXVII-7.en.pdf > http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/items/2627.php > Status of Ratification of the Convention: http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/status_of_ratification/items/2631.php > http://unfccc.int/2860.php > Text of the Convention: http://unfccc.int/key_documents/the_convention/items/2853.php > Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto 11 December 1997: http://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVII-7-a&chapter=27&lang=en > http://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20II/Chapter%20XXVII/XXVII-7-a.en.pdf > Amendment to Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nairobi, 17 November 2006: http://unfccc.int/key_documents/kyoto_protocol/items/6445.php > http://treaties.un.org/pages/Treaties.aspx?id=27&subid=A&lang=enAm > http://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20II/Chapter%20XXVII/XXVII-7-b.en.pdf >>> UN TREATY COLLECTION: http://treaties.un.org/Home.aspx > League of Nations Treaty Series: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/LONOnline.aspx > UNTS, United Nations Treaty Series Online Collection: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/UNTSOnline.aspx?id=1 > http://treaties.un.org/pages/Treaties.aspx?id=27&subid=A&lang=en > UN International Law: http://www.un.org/en/law/index.shtml
UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification: 1993 – 2011 > COP, Conference of the Parties; CRIC; COP/CST; CST; INCD: http://www.unccd.int/
Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changement Climatiques: UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: UNFCCC OR FCCC is an international treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development-UNCED; informally know as the Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1992: http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/convention_bodies/items/2629.php
Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la Desertification-CLD: http://www.unccd.int/convention/menu.php > http://www.unccd.int/convention/text/pdf/conv-fre.pdf
Convention on Biological Diversity: http://www.cbd.int/cop/
COP Convention on Tobacco Control: http://www.who.int/fctc/cop/en/
COP Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Crime and the Protocol Thereto: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CTOC/CTOC-COP.html
COP Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties: Ramsar convention: http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-documents-cops/main/ramsar/1-31-58_4000_0__
Basel Convention, Controlling Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal: http://www.basel.int/
The Vienna Convention for the protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocole; UNEP, Ozone Secretariat for the Vienna Convention and for the Montreal Protocol: http://ozone.unep.org/new_site/en/index.php
COP Stockholm Convention protecting human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants: http://chm.pops.int/Home/tabid/2121/Default.aspx
COP Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain Hazardous Chemical and Pesticides in international trade: http://www.pic.int/Home/tabid/855/language/en-US/Default.aspx
CONVENTION & DECADE UNDB CBD-United Nations on Biodiversity, CBD-Convention on Biological Diversity: The CBD was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 and entered into force in 2993: CBD Secretariat, Montreal-Canada: CBD Convention on Biological Diversity: http://www.cbd.int/ > THE CONVENTION: http://www.cbd.int/convention/ ; CARTAGENA PROTOCOL on Biosafety: http://bch.cbd.int/protocol/ > NAGOYA PROTOCOL on Access and Benefit-sharing: http://www.cbd.int/abs/
United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, 2011 -2020: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity: Montreal-Canada: http://www.cbd.int/2011-2020/ > http://www.cbd.int/undb/home/undb-strategy-en.pdf
UNDDD DECADE
United Nations Decade for Desert and the Fight against Desertification: Partners, UNCCD, UN, UNDP, UNEP, IFAD: Inter-Agency Task Force on UNDDD, UNDDD Secretariat, Bonn-Germany: http://unddd.unccd.int/
SYSTEME DE GOUVERNANCE DE LA TERRE/EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE PROJECT-GLOGOV.org: is a joint research programme of thirteen European research institutions : the Global Governance Project is endorsed by the Earth System Governance core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change-IHDP: http://www.glogov.org/ > http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/
The Participating Institutions in the Global Governance Project: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ; Free University Berlin ; Fridtjof Nansen Institute ; University of Bremen ; Sciences Po Bordeaux ; German Development Institute ; IHEID Geneva ; LSE ; Lund University ; Oldenburg University ; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ; Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Wageningen University: http://www.glogov.org/images/doc/GloGov_Flyer_Sept2010.pdf > http://earthsystemgovernance.org/affiliated-projects/global-governance-project
Earth System Governance Project: The Earth System Governance Project is a core project of IHDP: the Earth System Governance Project is a social science research network in the areas of governance and global environmental change: http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/
ESSP: Earth System Science Partnership of four international global environmental change research programmes [ESSP: DIVERSITAS + IGBP + WCRP + IHDP]: the ESSP was launched at the Amsterdam conference in 2001: ESSP Office, c/o DIVERSITAS, Paris-France: http://www.essp.org > http://www.essp.org/fileadmin/redakteure/pdf/others/Envisioning_Earth_System_Science_for_societal_needs.pdf
DIVERSITAS: Diversity (Latin word): DIVERSITAS, international Secretariat, c/o Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris-France: DIVERSITAS Phase I: 1991-2000: was established in 1991 by three international organisations, the UNESCO, the SCOPE-Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (secretariat: c/o UNESCO), IUBS-International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS Secretariat, Université Paris Sud XI, Paris-France): the goal of initiative was to developed an international non-governmental umbrella programme for research projects ; DIVERSITAS Phase II: 2001-2010: An International framework for biodiversity science ; DIVERSITAS Phase III: 2011-2020: Biodiversity and ecosystem services sciences for a sustainable planet: http://www.diversitas-international.org/ > DIVERSITAS partners: http://www.diversitas-international.org/about/partners > DIVERSITAS http://www.scopenvironment.org/ > http://www.iubs.org/ > http://www.scopenvironment.org/
IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: IGBP is sponsored by the International Council for Science-ISCU; IGBP is part of the Earth System Science Partnership-ESSP: http://www.igbp.net/ > ESSP: http://www.essp.org/
WCRP: World Climate Research Programme: WCRP/World Meteorological Organization-WMO, Geneva–Switzerland: the WCRP is sponsored by the World meteorological Organization, the International Council for Science-ICSU and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO-IOC: http://www.wcrp-climate.org/
IHDP: is a joint programme of the International Council for Science-ICSU, the International Social Science Council-ISSC and the United Nations University: the IHDP Secretariat is hosted and administered by UNU at the United Nations Campus in Bonn: IHDP Secretariat, Bonn-Germany: http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/
ICSU: International Council for Science: is a non-governmental organisation with a global membership of national scientific bodies, 121 members representing 141 countries and Scientific Union’s 30 members: ICSU Global Secretariat, Paris – France: Regional Offices: Africa, http://www.icsu.org/africa/about-icsu-roa/about-us/contact-us ; Asia and the Pacific, http://www.icsu.org/asia-pacific/about-icsu-roap/structure/secretariat ; http://www.icsu.org/latin-america-caribbean > Latin America and the Caribbean: http://www.icsu.org/
ISSC: International Social Science Council: ISSC/CISS UNESCO: Paris-France: ISSC Programs, World Social Science Forum & World Social Science Report: http://www.worldsocialscience.org/
UNU: United Nations University: the Academic Arm of the United Nations: UNU Headquarters, Tokyo-Japan: http://unu.edu/ > UNU Institutes: http://unu.edu/institutes-and-programmes/institutes > http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/
Global Land Project: ESSP, DIVERSITAS, IGBP, IHDP and WCRP: Global Land Project is funded and hosted by the University of Copenhagen; GLP is a joint research agenda of IGBP and IHDP: http://www.globallandproject.org/
CCAFS-CGIAR: Challenge Program “Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security” [10-year research initiative] is a major collaborative endeavor between the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research-CGIAR and their partners and the Earth System Science Partnership-ESSP: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/
Planet under Pressure, International Conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge, London March 2012: organized by the four Global Change Research programmes: DIVERSITAS + IGBP + WCRP + IHDP: http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/ > http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/organisers.asp
ECOLEX: Gateway to Environmental Law: is information on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP: http://www.ecolex.org
CIESIN Center for International Earth Science Information network: Earth Institute, Columbia University: www.ciesin.columbia.edu > www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu
