CEVAP:

The environmental issues are no longer considered within the scope of nation states. Rather, these issues expanded and many new actors participated in managing them, including “networks of experts, environmentalist organizations and multinational corporations as well as new agencies set up by governments”.

This theoretical approach suggests that today IOs play a significant role in the decision-making mechanisms that deal with environmental issues and develop “legally binding” policies negotiated and agreed upon by nation states and non-state entities. In fact, IOs help to strengthen the idea of global governance on environmental issues by reconciling processes of rule-making and rule implementation that takes place at different levels of governance, i.e. sub-national, national, supranational, and international