ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the factors that inhibit or promote effective international environmental regimes. It outlines obstacles that can make it difficult to create and implement effective regimes with strong, binding control measures. The chapter looks at variables that inhibit effective implementation and compliance. It outlines potential avenues to improve compliance. The chapter discusses options for increasing the financing available to implement global environmental regimes. Another obstacle to strong, effective global environmental regimes is sometimes the design of the regime itself. Regime rules inappropriate to an issue are unlikely to work. Control measures and reporting requirements that are too complex or vague might not be implemented correctly. The effectiveness of an environmental regime, that is, the extent to which it produces measurable improvements in the environment, is a function of regime design, particularly the strength of the key control provisions aimed at addressing the environmental threat, as well as the level of implementation and compliance.
