TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hickmann, Thomas
A1  - Elsässer, Joshua Philipp
T1  - New alliances in global environmental governance
BT  - how intergovernmental treaty secretariats interact with non-state actors to address transboundary environmental problems
JF  - International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics
N2  - The past few years have witnessed a growing interest among scholars and policy-makers in the interplay of international bureaucracies with civil society organizations, non-profit entities, and the private sector. Authors concerned with global environmental politics have made considerable progress in capturing this phenomenon. Nevertheless, we still lack in-depth empirical knowledge on the precise nature of such institutional interlinkages across governance levels and scales. Building upon the concept oforchestration, this article focuses on the relationship between specific types of international bureaucracies and actors other than the nation-state. In particular, we investigate how the secretariats of the three Rio Conventions reach out to non-state actors in order to exert influence on the outcome of international environmental negotiations. Our analysis demonstrates that the three intergovernmental treaty secretariats utilize various styles of orchestration in their relation to non-state actors and seek to push the global responses to the respective transboundary environmental problems forward. This article points to a recent trend towards a direct collaboration between these secretariats and non-state actors which gives rise to the idea that new alliances between these actors are emerging in global environmental governance.
KW  - global environmental governance
KW  - institutional interplay
KW  - intergovernmental treaty secretariats
KW  - orchestration
KW  - Rio Conventions
KW  - non-state actors
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-020-09493-5
SN  - 1567-9764
SN  - 1573-1553
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
SP  - 459
EP  - 481
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  -