Publication Alert!: Our perspective paper "Turning Words into Action" Designing Accountability Mechanisms with Impact for Multilateral Environmental Agreements is out open access in the Global Governance journal. brill.com/view/journal...

Publication Alert!: Our paper "Turning Words into Action - Designing Accountability Mechanisms with Impact for Multilateral Environmental Agreements" is out open access here: brill.com/view/journal...

HOT OFF THE PRESS: NGOs assessment of 16 National Energy and Climate Plans (#EUNECP) shows: → Many still fall short on ambition and implementation → Most ignore just transition needs → Few explain how to pay for it all CHECK: caneurope.org/content/uploads/2025/06/NGO-NECP-ASSESSMENT-JUNE-2025.pdf

In this policy brief we share a number of directions for strengthening accountability mechanisms for Multilateral Environmental Actions. Easy to achieve? Probably not but we have to start somewhere. The legitimacy of global environmental governance is at stake.

This was what many of us had suspected would happen. I guess that means US scientists who would like to be authors of the next 7th assessment working group reports (WGI-III) will have to find alternative affiliations to make sure their applications can be considered.

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