Managing the world's natural resources and addressing global environmental threats -- such as climate change -- requires redesigned mechanisms to promote international cooperation that include all types of "environmental entities," including Taiwan, researchers from Yale University said yesterday.
A new book from Yale entitled Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities, which focuses on the challenges of environmental protection in an increasingly ecologically interdependent world, was released on Tuesday at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.
A range of experts from across the world are examining various critical concerns and processes described in the book, which was edited by Daniel Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and Maria Ivanova, director of the Global Environmental Governance Project at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
The book reflects an interdisciplinary perspective, which takes up issues of international law, economics, ecological sciences and environmental policy.
At a press conference on issues surrounding global environmental governance held by Yale University on Wednesday, Jean Krason, executive director of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS), said that the creation of a global environmental information clearinghouse would standardize environmental data gathering and pool information already provided by other sources.
In addition, Krason said, ACUNS also proposes the creation of a "type two partnership" that would bring together private and public donors and receivers of resources and technology for sustainable development.
Responding to questions raised by the Taipei Times at the press conference, Dinah Shelton, a law professor of University of Notre Dame in the US, said the existing UN mechanism governing the environment should include all "ecological units," including Taiwan. "The reality is that, currently, many places and areas can only collaborate with others through other international networks," Shelton said.
Since 1972, when the UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, the UN has dominated diverse global issues, especially in the sectors of sustainable development and environmental protection. At the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the UN continued to function as a mechanism to manage global environmental governance.
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"What Taiwan needs is a new mechanism of global environmental governance -- which would include all ecological units -- to participate in global environmental protection activities," Lin said.
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