Arthur Dahl

Dr. Arthur Lyon Dahl is an environmental scientist, President of the International Environment Forum, on the Advisory Board of the Global Governance Forum, and a retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of UNEP, with 50 years’ experience in international organizations. He participated in the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, organized the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), served in the secretariat for the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Earth Summit), coordinated the UN System-wide Earthwatch, and lead the development of indicators of sustainable development. His recent work concerns proposals for UN reform, co-authoring the 2020 book “Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century” (Cambridge University Press) and recently “Towards a Global Environment Agency: Effective Governance for Shared Ecological Risks” for the Climate Governance Commission: https://globalchallenges.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FINAL–Towards-a-Global-Environment-Agency-2021-11-03.pdf

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