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  • 3 - On the International Environmental Governance Architecture: Looking Back to Look Ahead for Our Common Future

  • from Part I - Concepts, Structures, and Institutions
  • Edited by Jonas Ebbesson, Stockholms Universitet, David Langlet, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
  • Book:
    Fifty Years of International Environmental Law
    Published online:
    29 May 2026
    Print publication:
    02 July 2026, pp 109-128

  • Summary

    An organic linkage exists between the international environmental law-making process and the design of the architecture of international environmental governance (IEG). The prognosis of the global environmental problematique from the 1972 Stockholm Conference to the 2022 Stockholm+50 Meeting and beyond shows the workings of a marathon global environmental regulatory enterprise. Still, after more than 50 years, the nature, content, quality, and actual workings of the legal instruments are worrisome. In a state-centric global order, we need an honest introspection on the architecture of IEG. What will it take to overhaul the existing structures to secure our planetary future? Is it possible without a de novo entity? Can we revive and repurpose the UN Trusteeship Council with a new mandate for the environment and global commons? Within the limits of time and space, this chapter looks back in order to ideate and look ahead to secure a robust IEG architecture for our common planetary environmental future.