First Advisor
Pamela Martin
Abstract
The importance of reaching out to and including local stakeholders and local norms is becoming a factor within the formation and implementation of global environmental governance mechanisms. In recent years the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of the Ecuadorian Yasuní National Park has caught widespread international attention due to its biological and cultural diversity, as well as its impact on carbon emissions at a time when climate change is a big concern for many. This article evaluates the contradictions and imperatives of two initiatives, the first being the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, formulated domestically on alternative non-extraction norms. The second is the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) based on an international foundation of accepted norms pursuant in the existing Kyoto Protocol. While further research needs to be done on their applicability as overarching regimes are shaped around existing neoliberal frameworks and extraction norms, both models have shown the importance of the role of such international organizations as the United Nations in global environmental governance.
Recommended Citation
de Wit, Dominique
(2013)
"UN-REDD and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative as Global Environmental Governance Mechanisms,"
Bridges: A Journal of Student Research: Vol. 7:
Iss.
7, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/bridges/vol7/iss7/3
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