Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
kvinkhuyzen.bsky.social
Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
@kvinkhuyzen.bsky.social
Associate Professor Wageningen University on global public governance focusing on climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development
Publication Alert!: Our perspective paper "Turning Words into Action" Designing Accountability Mechanisms with Impact for Multilateral Environmental Agreements is out open access in the Global Governance journal.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Publication Alert!: Our paper "Turning Words into Action - Designing Accountability Mechanisms with Impact for Multilateral Environmental Agreements" is out open access here:
brill.com/view/journal...
September 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
HOT OFF THE PRESS: NGOs assessment of 16 National Energy and Climate Plans (#EUNECP) shows:

→ Many still fall short on ambition and implementation
→ Most ignore just transition needs
→ Few explain how to pay for it all

CHECK: caneurope.org/content/uploads/2025/06/NGO-NECP-ASSESSMENT-JUNE-2025.pdf
June 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
In this policy brief we share a number of directions for strengthening accountability mechanisms for Multilateral Environmental Actions. Easy to achieve? Probably not but we have to start somewhere. The legitimacy of global environmental governance is at stake.
June 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
This was what many of us had suspected would happen. I guess that means US scientists who would like to be authors of the next 7th assessment working group reports (WGI-III) will have to find alternative affiliations to make sure their applications can be considered.
‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved.

More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:
Scoop: U.S. delegation pulled from key U.N. climate science meeting
The IPCC meeting in China is slated to determine the content in the group's next series of reports.
www.axios.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
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February 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM