Integrating Sustainable Development into Global Institutions:Reforming the United Nations

作     者：Donna Craig Michael I.Jeffery QC 

作者机构：School of LawUniversity of Western SydneyAustralia Social and Environment Responsibility Research GroupSchool of LawUniversity of Western SydneyAustralia 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Population,Resources and Environment》 (中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第7卷第4期

页      面：3-14页

学科分类：083001[工学-环境科学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学] 

主　　题：ecologically sustainable development united nations environment organization UNEP global environmental governance commission on sustainable development 

摘      要：This article will briefly outline the origins,structure and functions of United Nations Environment Program and the Commission on Sustainable Development in the context of the goals of ecologically sustainable development(ESD).Economic development,social development and environmental protection form the three interconnected parts of *** achievements of the key UN environmental institutions and programs in opening up the global system to civil society,the private sector and a diversity of actors and interests,promoting the role of poverty alleviation as part of ESD through the Millennium Development Goals,and facilitating important Multilateral Environmental Agreements should be ***,with these notable exceptions,organizations such as United Nations Environment Program and the Commission on Sustainable Development have become weak in scientific and technical leadership,global policy,co-ordination(inside and outside the UN) and has few achievements in the international and national implementation of obligations and standards in Global Environmental Governance-including enforcement,compliance and *** article will outline the key reasons for this *** will also be focused on the way forward through of a new United Nations Environment *** will require a clarification of purpose and function(within the UN system and as part of global governance structures) as well as consideration of whether it depends on system-wide UN *** is recommended that medium and long term strategies for reform are necessary.