ABSTRACT
There is much in the earlier chapters of this volume that one instinctively agrees with. If one lived in a perfect world one might well have thought about investing resources and time into constructing the perfect environmental organization-but only after the multitude of the far more pressing problems of global environmental governance had been taken care of. This book is itself a testimony to the fact that we do not live in a perfect world. Moreover, there still exist too many problems that demand much more immediate attention. Until that perfect world arrives, talk of organizational tinkering is likely to be a distraction from, and possibly an impediment to, more effective international environmental governance. The concern is not merely that organizational tinkering is not the most pressing priority now. It is also that in the absence of other structural reform, no amount of organizational tinkering is likely to succeed. Such tinkering is neither necessary nor sufficient for better environmental
governance. It could easily make things worse by further burdening an already over-burdened system.
