Conceptualizing Green Governance: Prospects and Challenges for Pakistan

Abstract

Green governance is conceptualized as new environmental regimes based on deliberative and collaborative policy-making by the states to prevent environmental degeneration. The emerging threats to the environment led the states to develop more transformative and coherent measures to implement new regulations for successfully achieving sustainable development goals. This research envisages that environmental degeneration causing climate change at regional and global levels and the issues faced by the global south lacking appropriate mechanisms to opt more synergic approach in the present time. Similarly, why it is one of the serious issues in Pakistan which is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most climate’s vulnerable countries, despite contributing less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions.  Moreover, there are multiple other factors like variations in solar outputs, human activities of burning fossil fuels, deforestation building developments in cities and greenhouse gas emissions affecting environment. This qualitative research explains the implications of storms, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, natural calamities and hazardous diseases in Pakistan. The analytical technique is applied to examine that the successive governments in Pakistan developed policies reasonably to contain the negative consequences of climate change and for ensuring green governance. According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, global environmental governance is “the sum of organizations, policy instruments, financing mechanisms, rules, procedures and norms that regulate the processes of global environmental protection”. Global organizations are playing pragmatic roles in tackling the issues of climate change such as the International Energy Agency 1974, the International Panel of Climate Change 1988 and the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, henceforth this research explores that state authorities in Pakistan intend to operationalize top-down and bottom-up approaches for safeguarding environment.