UNEP: Retrospect and prospect--options for reforming the Global Environmental Governance Regime From: Georgetown International Environmental Law Review | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Hierlmeier, Jodie | Copyright Georgetown University Law Center Summer 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

Twenty years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme's publication, The World Environment 1972-1982, concluded with the observation that:

At the Stockholm Conference it was generally assumed that the world's system of national governments, regional groupings and international agencies had the power to take effective action .... By the early 1980s there was less confidence in the capacity of national and international managerial systems to apply known prin...