Better use of the world’s expertise in navigating the polycrisis
By Peter Bridgewater and Rakhyun Kim Published on Inter Press Service here. Other articles in this series on clustering conventions that are addressed by the Triple Environmental Crisis of pollution (Stanley-Jones), biodiversity (Schally) and climate change (Azores) ) have touched on the idea of clustering not only conventions but the science-policy bodies established separately to serve them. We address the question of t he negative consequences of maintaining status quo and identify how “consolidating knowledge” might make a difference. Azores notes the progressive evolution of environmental challenges and their governance from the 1972 Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment , resulting in today’s institutional landscape - a complex web of multilateral agreements aiming to foster sustainable development, living in separate spaces with inefficient coordination mechanisms. From 1945 onwards establishment of the UN and ...