More recently, however, the Union has demonstrated a growing leadership in global environmental governance.

These range of actors and sites involved in environmental governance demonstrate a growing diversity.

There are a number of other ministries and departments which play a role in environmental governance.

However, environmental governance as it currently stands is far from meeting one or more of these imperatives.

Some of the obstacles and challenges facing environmental governance include:

Other international institutions incorporate environmental governance in their action plans, including:

This relates to broader issues around methods of environmental governance.

This is the most important, expensive and least appealing aspect of environmental governance.

Lastly, the Commission is playing an active role in the debate on improving international environmental governance.

This is typically the case in the field of global environmental governance where one has to deal with complex and interrelated problems.