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Known as the world’s most powerful international body on the environment, the United Nations Environment Programme is in reality anything but powerful. Monetary contributions from member countries are voluntary and enforcement of environmental treaties is nonexistent. With climate change accelerating and UNEP struggling to facilitate bold climate action, many scholars have called for UNEP to be reformed into a new type of international organization -- one with real power. But would a more powerful UNEP actually be more effective? Is there a better way forward? Today, The Sweaty Penguin contemplates what it would take to meaningfully reform UNEP for the future.

With special guest Dr. Maria Ivanova, Associate Professor of Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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00:00 Start

01:12 UNEP is struggling to accomplish its environmental goals

05:55 What is UNEP?

07:54 Scholarly arguments about UNEP reform

09:43 Subsidiary bodies

11:14 Specialized agencies

14:20 Despite being larger, specialized agencies aren’t necessarily more effective

16:49 The UNEP founders wanted a small, nimble body

20:39 This debate is purely academic and theoretical

22:51 Host Ethan Brown’s final thoughts

24:32 Introducing special guest Dr. Maria Ivanova, Associate Professor of Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

24:45 New book: “UNEP at Fifty: The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution”

26:23 What types of reform proposals pose concerns?

29:50 Why did the UNEP founders decide a “Global Environment Organization” didn’t make sense?

31:46 Why were environmental issues considered interdisciplinary, but other global issues were not?

34:54 Is it fair to call the lack of climate progress a failure on UNEP’s part?

37:35 How are you evaluating the environmental progress of individual countries?

40:11 What are the next steps for UNEP?

42:38 End credits

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Each episode of The Sweaty Penguin invites you to explore one climate change issue in depth, guided by an expert in the field. The goal? To make environmental issues less politicized and more fun, so that people of any political ideology or interest level can learn, engage, and find common ground.

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