1.5 International Environmental Institutions

The institutional map: UNEP (the UN's Environment Programme, Nairobi — the coordination, the assessment (GEO reports), the MEA secretariats, the UN Environment Assembly's universal membership; the critiques: the programme-status-and-funding weakness); the HLPF (the SDGs' review home; the Voluntary National Reviews); the treaty machinery (the UNFCCC's COPs, the CBD's conferences, the Basel-Stockholm-Rotterdam conventions' chemicals world); the financing institutions (the GEF — the Global Environment Facility; the Green Climate Fund; the adaptation funds); the scientific bodies (the IPCC — the climate science's authority; the IPBES — the biodiversity's assessments); the courts' and tribunals' faces (the ICJ's environmental cases; the ITLOS; the PCA's arbitrations) — and the regional families (the regional seas' conventions; the South Asian institutions — Unit 5's SACEP-and-ICIMOD).