International Environmental Governance:
It's Impact on Social and Human Development
It's Impact on Social and Human Development
Akiko Domoto
Governor, Chiba Prefecture, Japan and past President, GLOBE International
"Many of the environmental threats we face are global in scope or have the potential to become so. As such, international conventions and other such mechanisms are of vital importance. However, international environmental governance can only be effective if it is integrated into local, national and regional governance structures which encompass governments as well as civil society and the business sector."
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Akiko Domoto is the governor of Chiba Prefecture, just north of Tokyo. Before winning the Governorship as an independent and without much campaign funds, Ms. Domoto was a member of the House of Councillors in the Japanese Diet, where she championed legislation banning domestic violence, gender discrimination, and child prostitution. While in the Diet, she also served as the President of both GLOBE Japan and GLOBE International. She was also the Vice president of IUCN.
In the paper Ms. Domoto discusses the impacts of global environmental governance on development and proposes measures to ensure that global environmental problems can be dealt with at the international level. This includes the requirement that solutions must be found and implemented in partnership with the broad range of people they are designed to benefit. Second, and even more importantly, solutions need to be based on the understanding that human society and the environment are interconnected and that, without a sound environment, society cannot function.
This paper was presented as a background document for the WSSD International Eminent Persons Meetin on Inter-linkages, organized by the UNU and its partners last 2 and 3 September 2001 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Akiko Domoto is the governor of Chiba Prefecture, just north of Tokyo. Before winning the Governorship as an independent and without much campaign funds, Ms. Domoto was a member of the House of Councillors in the Japanese Diet, where she championed legislation banning domestic violence, gender discrimination, and child prostitution. While in the Diet, she also served as the President of both GLOBE Japan and GLOBE International. She was also the Vice president of IUCN.
In the paper Ms. Domoto discusses the impacts of global environmental governance on development and proposes measures to ensure that global environmental problems can be dealt with at the international level. This includes the requirement that solutions must be found and implemented in partnership with the broad range of people they are designed to benefit. Second, and even more importantly, solutions need to be based on the understanding that human society and the environment are interconnected and that, without a sound environment, society cannot function.
This paper was presented as a background document for the WSSD International Eminent Persons Meetin on Inter-linkages, organized by the UNU and its partners last 2 and 3 September 2001 in Tokyo, Japan.
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