ABSTRACT
Regarding facilitation implementation mechanisms, environmental conventions use them as instruments for promotion and prevention. Academic literature on global environmental conventions addresses multiple issues, including the motivations behind them, treaty formation, and the role of the conventions as international law instruments, their institutional performance, and their effectiveness in addressing global environmental problems. Conventions design a series of mechanisms that both control and assist parties in the implementation of the dispositions established by each agreement. Capacity-building aims at enhancing the human, scientific, technological, organizational, institutional and resource capabilities of state parties to address the different obligations of the conventions, including the development of legal and institutional frameworks. Reporting constitutes the foundation of the mechanisms used by the conventions to support implementation, as national reports monitor and provide critical information on how countries are making progress to fulfil their global environmental commitments. In some cases, the financial mechanisms are administered by third parties.
