4.3.1 Global Environmental Institutions

(a) UNEP — the UN's environment programme (Nairobi-headquartered): the coordination-and- advocacy; the assessment (the GEO reports); the treaties' administration (the MEAs' secretariats' host); the Assembly (UNEA — the universal-membership's face); the critiques (the funding's weakness — the UNEP-vs-programme status). (b) UN High Level Political Forum onSustainable Development (HLPF) — the SDGs' review home: the annual forum (the progress's stocktaking); the Voluntary National Reviews (the Nepal VNRs' faces); the ECOSOC's-and-GA's joint child (the post-Rio+20 architecture); the companions (the SDG's own machinery; the Financing-for- Development's faces). The wider family (the exam's context): the UNFCCC's-and-protocol's COP machinery; the CBD's-and-others' conferences; the GEF (the financing); the IPCC (the science — the assessments' authority); the secretariats' dispersion (the treaty-by-treaty homes).