ABSTRACT
The organizational network of global environmental governance mirrors the complexity of the planet's manifold and overlapping ecosystems. Among the plethora of organizations with environment-related activities, we have restricted our analysis to those operating at the global level and have further selected those with either a clear environmental profile or a significant impact on global environmental governance. Frequently, however, UNEP represents a mere adjunct to existing projects: for instance, in providing organizational functions to particular multilateral environmental agreements or by acting as a scientific adviser to the dominant partners in the Global Environment Facility. UNDP's environmental role is largely defined by its function as an implementing agency of associated global funding mechanisms, namely the issue-specific Montr+¬al Protocol's Multilateral Fund or the cross-cutting Global Environment Facility. Mistrust towards a potentially hidden conditionality has also accompanied another multilateral environmental financing institution: the Global Environment Facility.
