The Global Environment Facility in its North-South context
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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has become controversial and is being criticised. Criticism of the GEF in terms of power, organization and objectives are interrelated. There is an unwillingness among the developing countries to accept the role of the GEF as the financial mechanism to implement Agenda 21 and other environment conventions. The GEF has become critical as a forum for critics to express their grievances in the North-South dialogue. The motivation and ideologies has become more important than the aid and the technology if a socio-environment perspective is taken into account.
Publication Name: Environmental Politics
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0964-4016
Year: 1995
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Geopolitics and the environment in Eastern Europe
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Severe environmental damage affecting many regions of Eastern Europe was mainly caused by manufacturing methods and authoritarianism during the Communist regime. The fall of the regime in 1989 opened the region to Western influences. The ensuing political and economic change resulted in the adoption of manufacturing technologies which were environmentally friendly. This subsequently encouraged the influx of investments into the region and influenced the emergence of environmental movements.
Publication Name: Environmental Politics
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0964-4016
Year: 1998
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Britain and the International Panel on Climate Change: the impacts of scientific advice on global warming part II: the domestic story of the British response to climate change
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Britain's leadership of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the result of the efforts of a mature research lobby which identified and helped in the development of opportunities which arose during the political changes in the mid-1980s. The leadership dominated the IPCC scientific advisory process and this was successfully amalgamated into domestic and foreign policies. Politicians exploited the threat of global warming to come down on unpopular energy and taxation policies.
Publication Name: Environmental Politics
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0964-4016
Year: 1995
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