Université de Sherbrooke
Membre employé(e) / Employed member candidate
Supervisor: Annie Chaloux
Start: 2022-10-03

Project

Global Environmental Governance: Architecture and Synergies
Despite the deep interconnections between environmental issues, the architecture of global environmental governance is fragmented (Biermann et al. 2009; Choucri, Sundgren, and Haas 1994; Zelli and van Asselt 2013). As a result, overlaps, inconsistencies, and competition often prevail over coordination and cooperation (Hale, Held, and Young 2013; Ivanova 2021; Rosendal 2001; Young 2021). With the aim of identifying solutions, this research examines the architecture of global environmental governance and the opportunities for adapting it to synergies between environmental issues. The guiding question of the research is: how can environmental issues be governed in synergy? Seeking to resolve inconsistencies and fragmentation, the research explores the benefits of an integrated and holistic approach to global environmental governance. It also aims to demonstrate that synergies can be exploited within a global, multi-level framework, within reasonable timeframes, and lead to concerted action that benefits societies and the planet.

Keywords

Gouvernance mondiale de l'environnement, Gouvernance mondiale du climat, Gouvernance mondiale de la biodiversité, Gouvernance mondiale de l'océan, Coopération internationale

Publications

1- Adoption d’un nouveau cadre mondial pour la biodiversité : bilan critique de la COP 15
Beaudoin, Simon, Annie Chaloux
2024 Écoscience

2- Revue historique de la gouvernance mondiale de l'environnement (1945–2022)
Beaudoin, Simon
2023 Canadian Journal of Political Science

3- La 27e Conférence des Parties de la Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques : un bilan critique
Beaudoin, Simon, Philippe Simard, Annie Chaloux
2023 Canadian Journal of Political Science

4- Paradiplomatie et finance climatique mondiale : Les cas du Québec, de la Wallonie et de l’Écosse
Chaloux, Annie, Gabriel Grégoire-Mailhot, Simon Beaudoin
2023 VertigO

5- Integrating Youth Perspectives: Adopting a Human Rights and Public Health Approach to Climate Action
Gasparri, Giulia, Yassen Tcholakov, Sophie Gepp, Asia Guerreschi, Damilola Ayowole, Élitz-Doris Okwudili, Euphemia Uwandu, Rodrigo Sanchez Iturregui, Saad Amer, Simon Beaudoin, Mayumi Sato
2022 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

6- The untold story of the world's leading environmental institution: UNEP at fifty. By MariaIvanova. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. 2021. 376pp. $23.61 (paper)
Beaudoin, Simon
2023 Governance

7- Change in global environmental politics: temporal focal points and the reform of international institutions
Beaudoin, Simon
2022 Environmental Politics

8- Redefining development: the extraordinary genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals
Beaudoin, Simon
2023 International Affairs

9- World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution Emanuel Adler, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 394.
Beaudoin, Simon
2019 Canadian Journal of Political Science