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Despite 40 years of international environmental governance, failures outnumber successes and the planetary environment continues to degrade rapidly. The root causes lie in the values behind our short-term materialistic orientation and disregard of science. Addressing the problem requires challenging our basic assumptions, applying a systems approach, and exploring alternative ethical frameworks and their implications for a "green economy". New institutional arrangements will be necessary to give form to multi-level environmental governance for sustainability.
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Arthur Dahl,
Arthur Dahl is President of the International Environment Forum, and a retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with 40 years' experience in sustainable development.
He has recently been consultant to the World Bank on indicators of development, Senior Advisor to a project on values-based indicators of education for sustainable development, and Co-coordinator of the UNEP Major Groups & Stakeholders Advisory Group on International Environmental Governance.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton (UK) and an international consultant on indicators of sustainability, environmental assessment and observing strategies, coral reefs, biodiversity, islands, environmental education, and social and economic development. A specialist on coral reefs and small island developing States (SIDS), he spent many years in the South Pacific and organized the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. He teaches in various university programmes, lectures widely, and has published many scientific papers and books including: "Island Directory", "Unless and Until: A Baha'i Focus on the Environment" and "The Eco Principle: Ecology and Economics in Symbiosis".