Abstract
This chapter chronicles one recent effort to bring multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and other aspects of international environmental governance (IEG) into a more coherent and stable institutional framework - the work of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Group of Ministers (IGM) or Their Representatives on IEG and the follow up to this work at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The Toepfer task force identified a of environmental institutions that had altered the United Nations (UN)'s environmental structure as well as led to the creation of institutional structures parallel to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP's Governing Council has responded to declining resources and eroding authority by seeking to reassert the program's pre-eminence in the field of the environment. The IGM was expected to come out with concrete proposals for the Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) as well as to revitalize IEG, in general, and UNEP, in particular.Keywords: Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF); Intergovernmental Group of Ministers (IGM); International Environmental Governance (IEG); proliferation of environmental institutions; United Nations (UN)'s environmental structure; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
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