Section C - Migration, Identity, and Sovereignty - EQ3 - What are the Impacts of Global Organisations on Managing Global Issues and Conflicts? Flashcards
Environmental IGOs - UNCLOS - What is it and what problem is it addressing?
United Nations Convention om the Law of the Sea - Law and order in the world’s oceans and seas
Environmental IGOs - UNCLOS - How have they attempted to resolve the issue?
Set up legal framework for all ocean activities and have details rules and highlighted rights and responsibilities of those who operate in the oceans
Environmental IGOs - UNCLOS - Successes
Protection of maritime environment and conservation of maritime resources and reduce conflict in the sea
Environmental IGOs - UNCLOS - Failures
Non universal ratification EG US and illegal fishing
Environmental IGOs - Montreal Protocol - What is it and what problem is it addressing?
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion
Environmental IGOs - Montreal Protocol - How have they attempted to resolve the problem?
A faze out of ozone depleting substances and control methods on consumption production and trade on ozone depleting substances
Environmental IGOs - Montreal Protocol - Successes
Ozone layer recovery, global cooperation, technical advancements in the field
Environmental IGOs - Montreal Protocol - Failures
Some countries who are part of the protocol are struggling to meet their goals and some countries are concerned that financial help is not fair and equal
Environmental IGOs - CITES - What is CITES and what problem is it addressing
Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species and Flora and Fauna
Environmental IGOs - CITES - How have they attempted to resolve the problem?
Licensing, trade bans, species protection
Environmental IGOs - CITES - Successes
35,000 animals and plants are protected by the conventions
Environmental IGOs - CITES - Failures
Consists of gov decisions and its decision making is rooted in the political and economic situation of member states
Environmental IGOs - UN Water Convention - What is it and what problem is it seeking to resolve?
1997 more than 100 nations gathered to adopt a flexible convention that established basic rules and cooperation between watercourse states on the use, management and protection of international water sources
Environmental IGOs - UN Water Convention - How is it attempting to resolve the issue?
Secure water sources by facilitating negotiations
Environmental IGOs - UN Water Convention - Successes
Has mostly seen good uptake and respect with 39 signatories
Environmental IGOs - UN Water Convention - Failures
Neither China nor India have ratified the agreement, so rivers that supply 1.4 billion people are not part of the convention
Environmental IGOs - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - What is it and what problems is it seeking to address?
Rising levels of global warming negatively impacting the world’s ecosystems
Environmental IGOs - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - How is it attempting to stop the issue?
Conducting a global assessment of the earth’s ecosystems and the services they provide before issuing warning that we need to act now before it is too late