Greening international institutions

In focusing their efforts on the structural causes of poverty, unemployment and social disintegration, environment and development NGOs are increasingly turning their attention to the need for procedural and institutional reform of international institutions: the UN General Assembly, specialized UN agencies and the new Commission for Sustainable Development, UNCTAD, UNCTC, GATT, NAFTA, the IMF and the World Bank, particularly the effects of the World Bank/IMF Structural Adjustment Programmes and the implications of GATT's Uruguay Round. They are pressing for substantive policy initiatives which reflect a philosophy of sustainability, greater accountability for major economic institutions, the need for debt reduction and a code of conduct for transnational corporation.

1. Instituting
2. Greening
3. Developing

1. Reforming the United Nations
2. Reforming International Monetary Fund
3. Greening the GATT
4. Greening development aid

1. Providing environmental assistance to developing countries

1. Revitalizing international institutions
2. Reforming budgetary practices
3. Protesting lack of integration of environmental and economic issues
4. Protesting environmentally unsound policies of development banks
5. Developing international environmental law

1. Shallow ecology policy
2. Loss of credibility in international institutions
3. Inadequate models of socio-economic development
4. Bureaucratic resistance to self-review

1. Unsociable
2. Nonglobalized
3. Integrity

1. International Institute for Sustainable Development: Global Green Standards
2. Global Green
3. World Resources Instistute
4. Global Green Growth Institute
5. Green Growth Knowledge Platform
6. A Global Green New Deal for Climate, Energy, and Development
7. GLOBAL GREEN GROWTH: Clean Energy Industrial Investments and Expanding Job Opportunities
8. Global Green Economy
9. Green Growth and Developing Countries A Summary for Policy Makers