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October 23-25, 2003
Yale University
On October 23-25, 2003, The Yale Center for Environmental Law
and Policy, in collaboration with the Yale Center for the Study
of Globalization, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies,
and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, convened an international
workshop on Global Environmental Governance: The Post-Johannesburg
Agenda. The meeting took place on October 23-25, 2003 at Yale
University in New Haven, Connecticut. Former Mexican President
Ernesto Zedillo, who now directs the Yale Center for the Study
of Globalization, hosted the opening event.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg
highlighted - both through action and inaction - the need for
greater focus on global environmental governance. The WSSD intergovernmental
process failed to produce either a vision or a structure for
ongoing international environmental cooperation. The official
follow-up has showed little promise of coming forth with the
groundbreaking proposals necessary to address issues such as
climate change, drinking water shortages, fisheries depletion,
and biodiversity loss. We therefore convened this policy dialogue
in the context of a critical need for alternative global environmental
governance initiatives based on rigorous analysis, careful attention
to political realities, and innovative ways to manage ecological
interdependence. The meeting was structured to generate a set
of concrete policy recommendations in the form of a policy paper
and outreach materials to be distributed to governments and
international agencies.
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