Transparency in Global Environmental Governance

Workshop on: Transparency in Global Environmental Governance

Organizer: Aarti Gupta, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Location: Hotel de Wageningse Berg, Wageningen, the Netherlands

When: April 23-24, 2009

mailto:aarti.gupta@wur.nl

A workshop will be held on April 23-24, 2009 in Wageningen University on the topic of "Transparency in Global Environmental Governance". Transparency is often assumed to be associated with accountable, legitimate, democratic and effective global environmental governance, yet the link between transparency and such desired ends (and what these relationships entail, or how they can be conceptualized) has not been systematically studied.

This workshop brings together papers that explore these issues in conceptual and empirical depth. The focus is on information disclosure as a concrete operationalization of transparency. Information disclosure is central to a growing range of global environmental governance initiatives. These include the private voluntary Global Reporting Initiative to multilaterally negotiated Prior Informed Consent treaties addressing trade in hazardous waste, chemicals or genetically modified organisms, to private voluntary certification and disclosure schemes in forestry, fisheries and extractive industries, to the Aarhus Convention institutionalizing a right to environmental information.

All such examples will be addressed by papers presented at this workshop.

Click here for the workshop programme. This workshop is supported by COST Action IS0802 on Transformations in Global Environmental Governance. More information about this Action can be found here.