The main objective of the United Nations Environment Programme was to be the leaders in global environmental change that promotes a cohesive global environmental agenda within the United Nations. By limiting itself to within the reach of the UN, the UNEP is preventing itself from its full potential. UNEP must become independent from the UN and start its own world environmental organization if it truly wants to be the leader in global environmental change.
Already there has been a call to reform the UNEP. In 2007 then at the time French President Jacques Chirac along with the support of 46 other counties called for the UNEP to be replace by a new organization, “United Nations Environment Organization.” The belief was the UNEP’s lack of voluntary funding and a location removed from the center of political power, along with its label as a Programme opposed to an independent agency, like the World Trade Organization, had been impeded its ability to preform properly. While “United Nation Environment Organization” or UNEO ultimately did not become a reality it did bring to light the importance of the UNEP strengthening it position within the UN.
When the UNEP was set up in 1972, it was a comparatively independent player with a clearly defined work area. However as the international realm became more awe of the environmental issues there had been an increase in international environmental regimes that have extensive fragmented the work area of the UNEP. Each international environmental regime created its own norms and standard for each environmental issue, diluting the any standards that were created by the UNEP. When compared to national politics, the current international situation would come close to eliminating a national enviro...
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... wheel with this change. Several environmental regimes have already required their parties to report on specific policies. Specialized organizations, such as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) collect and distribute valuable knowledge and promote further research within its field. The countless inputs made by numerous international actors are unmistakably in need of a central anchoring point. The UNEP tried be this anchoring point, thought as a platform that is low within the UN General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council, its resource and capabilities are insufficient. This task could be much enhanced by an institutional independent and better-funded world environment organization.
In Conclusion, The UNEP should make a formal declaration of independence from the United Nations and it new status as an international environmental organization.
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