The role of the United Nations Environment Programme in the coordination of multilateral environmental agreements

Before specifying our approach further, we will first make some general observations on how the study of international environmental organizations fits into the broader study of global environmental governance. Over the last two decades there has been a strong research focus on international environmental regimes and attention has also been geared towards the interplay between regimes.1 There has also been an increased interest in the study of organizations in global environmental politics – the main focus of this chapter.2