Abstract
United Nations Conference on Humans and the Environment delegates agreed to establish a new United Nations Environment Programme, whose job it would be to co-ordinate global environmental governance through identifying important problems, convening and enabling international negotiations, and monitoring the resulting agreements. World Summit on Sustainable Development was a far more subdued event, reflecting disillusionment with multilateral diplomacy as the primary global environmental governance tool. It is true, however, that the global summits have been sidelined by the contentious politics characterizing climate governance, which has become the focal point for global environmental governance. Paris was hailed as a huge success by negotiators and observers, which, politically, it most certainly was, and a watershed moment in the history of global environmental governance. The failure of negotiators at the 1992 Rio Summit to overcome divergent national interests and enact a framework convention to protect the world's forests left an important gap in the framework of global environmental governance.
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