Dr. Raymond Clémençon
Global and International
Studies Program / Sociology Department
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Environment and Development
2400 Bren Hall, UCSB
Santa Barbara, California 93106-5131
rclemencon@global.ucsb.edu
Raymond Clémençon is a senior
lecturer in international organizations and environmental policy and politics at
the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Global
and International Studies Program, the Sociology Department and
the Bren School for Environmental Science and Management. His interests include international environmental institutions and
negotiations, international organizations and globalization, financing mechanism for global environmental agreements, green parties and environmental movements, and regional
integration and democratization. Until
2008 he taught at the University of California in San Diego, at
the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS),
the Environmental Studies Program and in the Political Science Department.
He
is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environment and Development.
Raymond Clémençon has been a practitioner in international environmental
politics since 1989, as a government representative and policy consultant. From
1989 to 1994, he was Section Head at the International Affairs
Division of the Swiss Environment Agency. He was one of the negotiators on the
Rio Declaration and the Agenda 21 during the Rio Conference on Environment and
Development in 1992, and during the replenishment and
restructuring negotiations of the Global Environment Facility, GEF, a
multilateral funding mechanism for global environmental projects run by the
World Bank, UNDP and UNEP. He has participated in many international meetings
on climate change, the Montreal Protocol to protect
the ozone layer, and on trade and environment. In the early 90s he was part of
Switzerland's national early effort to develop a CO2 tax and a national
sustainable development strategy.
Clémençon has served as a policy consultant for the
Global Environment Facility, the World Bank, the "International Task Force on Global
Public Goods," and the Swiss government. He was a member of the evaluation team conducting the
Second Performance Assessment of the GEF in 1997. At UCSD, Raymond Clémençon was a project
director and senior research fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and
Cooperation (IGCC).
Raymond Clémençon has a Ph.D. in international relations and comparative
politics from the University of Zurich (1988), a Masters degree in Political
Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1983), and Bachelors
degrees from the University of Basel in sociology and history (1979). In 1988, he was awarded a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for
post-doctoral research at Stanford University in 1988/89.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2010 forthcoming. "Pushing past Neo-Liberalism: Rethinking Global Climate Negotiations." In: Constance Lever-Tracy and Barrie Pittock, Climate Change and Society: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, Francis & Taylor.
2009. "Innovative Financing Mechanisms for the GEF." First Meeting for the Fifth Replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund, March 17-18, 2009, Paris. GEF/R.5/8, February 27, 2009.
2008. "The
Bali Road Map. A First Step on the Difficult Journey to a Post-Kyoto Protocol
Agreement."
Journal for Environment and Development Vol. 17, No.
1:70-94.
2007. "Funding
for the Global Environment Facility Continues to Decline."
Journal for
Environment and Development Vol. 16, No. 1:3-7.
2006. "What
Future for the Global Environment Facility."
Journal for Environment
and Development Vol. 15, No. 1:50-74.
2006. "Capacity Building for Global Environmental Public Goods
Provision."
International Task Force on Global Public Goods
(ITFGPG). Stockholm.
(Full
Task Force Report)
2006. "Cost-benefit Analysis of Global Commons Recommendations.
An analysis of costs and benefits of climate change and biodiversity
conservation policies." Stockholm: ITFGPG. (Download)
2006. "Resource Needs and Availability for Protecting Global
Environmental Public Goods." Stockholm: ITFGPG.
2004. "On the Back Burner Again: Environment and Development Politics Since the
1992 Rio Conference." Editor's Note.
Journal of Environment and
Development, Vol. 13, No. 2, June.
2001. Multilateral Financing Institutions and Business Opportunities in the
Environment Sector. Monograph. Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and
Landscape. Bern.
2000. Financing Protection of the Global Commons. The Case
for a Green Planet Contribution.;
GEF Policy Papers, Global Environment
Facility, Washington, D.C.
2000. Porter, Clémençon, Ofosu-Amaah and Phillips. 1998. Study of GEF's Overall
Performance. Washington: Global Environment Facility.
2000. "Foreign Direct Investment and Global Environmental Protection. Why
Environmentalists should favor Multilateral Investment Rules." Journal of
World Investment, Vol. 1, No. 1.
1997. "Economic Integration and the Environment in Southeast Asia." Journal
for Environment and Development Vol. 6, No. 3:317-333.
1996. "Financing Global Environmental Protection: Time for New Ideas."
Linkages Journal, Vol.1, No. 3.
1995. "Global Climate Change and the Trade System: Bridging the Culture
Gap." Journal for Environment and Development 4:29-51.
Böhlen, Bruno & Raymond Clémençon. 1992. "The International
Environmental Policy of Switzerland." In: Handbook of Swiss Foreign
Policy, ed. by A. Riklin, et al. Bern: Haupt Verlag.
Brugger, Ernst A. & Raymond Clémençon. 1990. "Sustainable Development:
A Challenge for the Business World." World Industry Conference on
Environmental Management, WICEM II.
Book
1990. Perceptions and Interests: Developing Countries and the International Economic
System. Bern: Peter Lang Press.