Rakhyun E. Kim

TL;DR: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations present a novel approach to global governance where goal-setting features as a key strategy as discussed by the authors. But their collective success will depend on the extent to which states formalize their commitments, strengthen related global governance arrangements, translate the global ambitions into national contexts, integrate sectoral policies, and maintain flexibility in governance mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the evolving structure of the web of international environmental treaty law has been analyzed using 1001 cross-references among 747 multilateral environmental agreements concluded from 1857 to 2012.

TL;DR: The Earth System Governance project (ESG) as discussed by the authors is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet.

TL;DR: The notion of "goal" is used here to mean a single, legally binding, superior norm that gives all international regimes and organizations a shared purpose to which their specific objectives must contribute.

TL;DR: Evidence is found suggesting that international environmental law is a complex system where treaties and institutions self-organize and exhibit emergent properties and the adequacy of the direction and rate of adaptation for the purpose of safeguarding the integrity of Earth’s life-support system is questioned.