The subject of this paper is the importance of the diffusion of environmental innovations between countries for the global development of environmental policy. Empirical observation has shown that national environmental initiatives are often rapidly adopted by other countries; thus, these...

Global environmental governance is necessarily multi-actor, multi-sectoral and multi-level. The Rio model of governance has so far provided an adequate answer. It is the only model that takes into account the highly complex actor configuration. A reform could therefore remain essentially...