SIMULATION / ADAPTATION FUND Flashcards
NIE
National Implementing Entities
RIE
Regional Implementing Entities
Civil Society Network is?
NGO’s
MIE
Multilateral Implementing Entities
Theme of simulation:
“Options to further enhance civil society participation and engagement in the Work of the Board”
SAP?
Structural Adjustment Program (how to repay loans to IMF / World Bank - vis-a-vis unsustainable development, ie., palm oil …. )
TNCs
transnational corporations
GPI
Gross Progress Indicator
UNEP
United Nations Environmental Programme (calls on IGO’s to deal with stuff like CFC’s)
CSD
UN Commission on Sustainable Development
UNCSD replaced the CSD with
High-Level Political Forum on SD
UNFCCC
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (IPCC related)
MEA
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (later replaced by COP / Agenda 21 / CSD)
COP
Conference of the Parties (turn commitments into pledges into regimes, and invite NGO’s)
Commitments become …
pledges
pledges become …
regimes
Regimes ratified at …
COP (Conference of the Parties)
IPBES
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Nontreaty measures =
soft laws
FAO
food and agriculture organization
FAO often paired with
WHO
UNDP
UN Development Programme
Human Development Report by
UNDP
MDG’s are what and became what
Millenium Development Goals cum SDG’s
Treaty Secretariates =
IGO appointed for day-to-day governance of treaty regimes
CITES
Convention on Int Trade of Endangered Species (of wild fauna and flora)
GEF
Global Environmental Facility (largest funder of Enviro projects)
- World Bank 2. IMF 3. ???
NDB new development Bank
- World Bank 2. ???
IMF (similar platform / slower on enviro concern / macro-economics / fiscal reform to prioritize electric over fuel, etc.)
What is the World Bank?
180 countries contribute / founded to help post-WWII rebuilding
Regional bodies 1. EU 2. ???
OAS - Org of Ameri States
APEC
Asia Pacific Economy Cooperation
MEA’s
multilateral enviro agreements
G-77
77 developing countries organized
OECD
Organization for Econ Coop and Dev - 34 countries / trade and CC
IISD
Int Inst of Sust Dev (Canada & Stockholm)
POP
persistent organic pollutant
IUCN
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
RAN
rainforest action network
CAN
Climate Action Network
Climate Action Network does what?
Gives out Fossil awards