Global Institution and the Environment

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,3, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: Environmental awareness is as great as ever before thanks to environmental actors. One of them are Global Institutions which have been criticised for either not being effective, too bureaucratic or only representing Northern policies. This paper looks into the development of Global Institutions over the last century and examines the World Bank's responsiveness to environmental concerns. The paper concludes that reaching institutional consensus is difficult besides the rising number of environmental accords.