Abstract
This article examines subnational government’s role in global environmental governance. With such an end, the article considers the characteristics that make subnational governments relevant actors in the promotion of sustainable development and the ways in which the Zero Draft of the outcome document of Rio+20 engages these actors in the institutional framework for sustainable development. Considering the emergence of subnational governments and their horizontal networks in global environmental governance, the article examines the activities of the Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development (nrg4SD), since its creation, ten years ago, to its position in relation to the Zero Draft. The article suggests that environmental paradiplomacy can play an increasingly relevant role in the institutional framework that will be needed for sustainable development. First because the problems that affect the world in the present require answers from multiple actors, in multiple scales, having subnational governments the crucial role of developing and implementing policies at citizen’s level. Second, because in order to achieve global environmental governance, subnational governments must be recognised as governmental stakeholders among the actors responsible for the international decision-making process.
Highlights
Com este fim, o presente artigo apresenta três seções
The article considers the characteristics that make subnational governments relevant actors in the promotion of sustainable development and the ways in which the Zero Draft of the outcome document of Rio+20 engages these actors in the institutional framework for sustainable development
First problemas que afetam o mundo hoje exigem uma resposbecause the problems that affect the world in the present ta de múltiplos atores, em múltiplas escalas, cabendo aos require answers from multiple actors, in multiple scales, governos subnacionais o papel crucial de desenvolver e having subnational governments the crucial role of implementar as políticas necessárias à promoção do paradeveloping and implementing policies at citizen’s level
Summary
O presente artigo apresenta três seções. A primeira discorre sobre a importância dos governos subnacionais na promoção do desenvolvimento. First problemas que afetam o mundo hoje exigem uma resposbecause the problems that affect the world in the present ta de múltiplos atores, em múltiplas escalas, cabendo aos require answers from multiple actors, in multiple scales, governos subnacionais o papel crucial de desenvolver e having subnational governments the crucial role of implementar as políticas necessárias à promoção do paradeveloping and implementing policies at citizen’s level.
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