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Rethinking public and private policies in Europe with the support of a industrial sustainability index

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

The aim of this paper is to design a new index for obtaining a measure of sustainable performance in the industrial sector (SIPI). This approach allows to evaluate the green policy implemented by both government and enterprises and to underline the differences between their actions concerning the environmental, economic, political and social issues...

Climate change and developing countries: from background actors to protagonists of climate negotiations

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

The role of developing countries in climate negotiations has been changing over time, evolving from spectators to main actors. Accordingly, this paper provides a descriptive analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the formal documents containing mitigation and adaptation efforts voluntarily set by each country, submitted by deve...

Incorporating international biodiversity law principles and rights perspective into the European Union Timber Regulation...

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

This article assesses the synergies and conflicts between the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR), and the potential role of the CBD principles and rights perspective in improving coherence across these diverse forest-related agreements. We find that both the EUTR, which aims to eliminate illegal...

Accountability mechanisms in international climate change financing

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

This paper uses agency theory to analyse the incentives that a donor (principal) and recipient (agent) face as actors in an accountability regime for the financing of international climate change projects in developing countries. We address the following question: What accountability measures serve to align the incentives of the donor with those of...

A national system of biological monitoring in the Russian Arctic as a tool for the implementation of the Stockholm Conve...

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Issues related to protection of the Arctic environment are becoming increasingly urgent, as arctic ecosystems are vulnerable to increasing anthropogenic pressures. The problem of protecting Northern nature from the effects of persistent organic pollutants, which are dangerous for both biota and human health, is particularly acute. This case study a...

Mapping the fragmentation of the international forest regime complex: institutional elements, conflicts and synergies

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

In the field of global environmental governance, a plethora of international regimes have emerged over the past decades. In some issue areas, multiple regimes aim to govern the issue, sometimes reinforcing, oftentimes conflicting with each other. Consequently, international regime complexes are an empirical phenomenon, which are inherently characte...

What does UN environment’s GEO-6 mean for INEA?

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Rich man’s solution? Climate engineering discourses and the marginalization of the Global South

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Numerous recent studies project that ‘climate engineering’ technologies might need to play a major role in the future. Such technologies may carry major risks for developing countries that are often especially vulnerable to, and lack adaptive capacity to deal with, the impacts of such new technologies. In this situation, one would expect that devel...

Institutional diffusion for the Minamata Convention on Mercury

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

A trinity composed of legally binding regulations, an independent financial mechanism, and a compliance mechanism characterizes the institutional design of the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Meanwhile, few existing environmental treaties feature an independent financial mechanism as well as a compliance mechanism. Why did the Minamata Convention a...

The role of national problems in European air quality regulation: the process of amplification

Published in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Recurring themes in the literature on European environmental policy-making is the leader–laggard spectrum and regulatory competition. European environmental policy is driven towards expansion because certain states take up leadership roles and manage to have their preferred regulatory solution adopted by the relevant European policy-making institut...