Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

A study on negotiations of the Montreal Protocol: Focusing on global environmental governance specifically on global forum of the United Nations Environmental Programme

Author(s):

M. Rizal Razman ^{1, 2*}, A. Samad Hadi ², Jamaluddin M. Jahi ³, A. Hadi Harman Shah ⁴, Sham Sani ², Ghazali Yusoff ⁵

Recieved Date: 2009-05-30, Accepted Date: 2009-10-09

Abstract:

Global environmental governance provides the main framework for global cooperation among the global community in order to safeguard Mother Nature at the national, regional and international levels. At each level the responsibility has turned out to be increasingly multifarious as new protagonists and concerns are drawn into the global environmental governance process. Some of the global environmental governance scholars have suggested that a global forum might have an influence on the negotiations for creating MEAs, which include the Montreal Protocol 1987. Moreover, the existence of such a forum would lead to global cooperation in order to achieve sustainable development. The Montreal Protocol has managed to seek international environmental cooperation among almost all of the states in the world, which made the Montreal Protocol become a successful one. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study is to explain the influence of the UNEP global forum in the global environmental governance with regard to the Montreal Protocol’s early negotiations and the relations of the interstates’ participation response. This study has adopted the qualitative approach which is based on the meetings’ proceeding reports of the Montreal Protocol. This study has also acknowledged that the global forum of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) had played an essential role as a strong environmental forum to influence the Montreal Protocol’s early negotiations and the response of the interstates’ participation. Based on the results of the analysis, we have identified the main themes as activities and committees, while the eight sub-themes are meetings, workshops, conferences, coordinating committees, secretariat, advisory panel, working groups and Governing Council. Finally, the preliminary findings indicate that having the Montreal Protocol negotiated under the global forum of the UNEP is important in terms of the establishment ‘surrounding’ that was formed, whereby the negotiating countries were only subject to a small number of ‘external’ forces, compared to global forum elsewhere.

Keywords:

Negotiations, Montreal protocol, global environmental governance

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Journal: Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
Year: 2009
Volume: 7
Issue: 3&4
Category: Environment
Pages: 832-836

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