This chapter addresses the nature and magnitude of the global environmental challenge and the response of the international organizations responsible for environmental issues to that challenge. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the current global environmental policy and aid architecture by drawing upon evidence from independent evaluations of international organizations concerned with the global environment. It reviews the extent, to which the individual and collective responses of international organizations have been adequate to meet the challenge, what has worked and what has not, and lessons and implications for the future. In short this paper attempts a meta evaluation of the available evaluative evidence on international organizations concerned with the global environment.

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