Global Governance

Question 1

Environmental sustainability

Answer 1

A state in which the demands placed on the environment can be met without reducing the quality of the environment for the future.

Question 2

Global Commons

Answer 2

Resource domains or areas that lie outside the political reach of any one nation state.

Question 3

Global Governance

Answer 3

A movement of political integration aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region.

Question 4

Non-government organisations

Answer 4

Any non-profit, voluntary citizens’ group with a common interest, which is organised on a local, national or international level. Sometimes referred to as a ‘civil society organisation.

Question 5

United Nations

Answer 5

Organisation made up of 193 member states who aim is to promote international peace and co-operation.

Question 6

Sustainable Development

Answer 6

Development which recognises recognises that the needs of the present have to be met but doing this without affecting the needs of future generations.