The Andean Community is a trade bloc comprised of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru that does not have any competence to face environmental and sustainable development regional issues.

The European Union has been a regional organisation with both economic and environmental objectives since its very beginning.

Regional organizations can serve as effective mechanism for dealing with environmental challenges at the domestic and regional level and enforce the web of International Environmental Governance. However, the global effect of some environmental issues (climate change, desertification, depletion of ozone layer etc) requires a concerted and collaborative action at the global level.

The OECD is a regional organisation 

The Regional Commissions of the UN were established under:

The World Bank provides low-interest loans, interest-free credit and grants which have enabled many developing countries to build the capacity to address environmental issues effectively.

Despite UNEP’s limiting status as a UN programme, rather than a specialized agency or body of the UN, it has made significant contributions to the development and application of both international environmental law and policy.

Read carefully the following statements about the role of the United Nations in IEG and select the wrong one:

The Conference of Parties to MEAs and MEA Secretariats are also responsible for implementing environmental obligations.

In 1992, the UN Security Council officially recognized the link between the environment and security, when it affirmed that ‘non-military sources of instability in the economic, social, humanitarian and ecological fields have become threats to peace and security’.