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Lee A. Kimball with the assistance of William Boyd

Synopsis

The author recommends reforms in monitoring and assessment, environmental management, integrated planning for sustainable development, and building naitonal capacities in all these areas.

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Global environmental protection and sustainable development require multilateral cooperation. International institutions -- particularly those of the UN system -- are important vehicles for developing effective policy agreements at global and regional levels and facilitating the financial and technical support needed to back them up. The system as it exists today, however, is largely inadequate to this task.

Forging International Agreement highlighs the present and future challenges facing the international instiutional system and pinpoints the shortcomings in existing arrangements. The author recommends reforms in monitoring and assessment, environmental management, integrated planning for sustainable development, and building naitonal capacities in all these areas. This study emphasizes the need for performance reviews in all countries and international agencies to increase accountability, to inform ongoing reform within the UN system, and to achieve more effective global environmental governance in general.

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