Research and Reflection Paper on Global Governance

Running Head: Global Governance
Research and Reflection Paper on Global Governance
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Research and Reflection Paper on Global Governance
Introduction
In the 21st century, Global governance has turned out to be the central argument of world politics. The policy advocates consider it as the universal solution to the detrimental impacts of globalization. Along these lines, global environmental governance corresponds to the amalgamation of the financing mechanisms, policy instruments, organizations, rules, processes as well as procedures that ensure environmental pollution across the globe. During the era of the 1970s, global environment issues became an integral part of the international agenda. This was because of the dramatic changes in the environment that have altered the parameters supporting the existence of life. For paradigm, the climate changes have led to the extinction of several species. Various researchers argued that the actions of humans place an impact on the planetary ecosystems which are now escalating in terms of depleting natural planetary capital, magnitude and scale. Over the past 50 years, the global population has nearly doubled while the economy has augmented significantly. In contrast, a significant division of the ecosystems services provided to humans by nature is now degraded. The adverse effects are evident across air, water, and land; thereby impacting the ability of the Earth to sustain its biological diversity. This particular paper discusses the association between globalization and environment governance and the challenges associated with global environmental governance. The paper will exclusively emphasize on the significance of reforming the global environmental governance.[Jasanoff, Sheila, Marybeth Long Martello, and Peter M. Haas, eds. Earthly politics: local and global in environmental governance. MIT press, 2004]
Discussion
The Architecture of Global Environmental Governance
In recent times, there has been a significant rise in the global institutions concerned with environmental management because of the increasing saliency of the ecology issues. Some environmental analysts argue that the environmental issues persist and can be tackled at nation state level. Nevertheless, issues such as global warming, rising sea levels as well as pollution have no boundaries. In the view point of Steven, no state can control the atmosphere and the prevailing challenges. Correspondingly, the actions initiated by one state effect the climate of other locations also. Hence, the States, by merely controlling their own behavior, cannot preserve their populace from global environmental issues. The environmental issues have to need to be dealt at global levels. Obviously, the unilateral efforts by the nations that aim to eradicate the environmental issues cannot be dismissed. In fact, the efforts at the state level can be valuable for greater global governance for the global environmental challenge. According to Betsill et al, the present framework for the international environmental regime is weak and acquires the limited capacity to address the modern environmental issues adequately. In contrast to other global gov...