About JED Editorial Staff Editorial Board Call for Papers Submission Guidelines Book Reviews & Conference Reports Contact Us Home		Raymond Clémençon Raymond Clémençon teaches international and comparative environmental policy and politics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS), and in the Political Science Department of the University of California, San Diego. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environment and Development and has been a practitioner in international environmental politics since 1989, as a government representative and policy consultant. From 1989 to 1994, Raymond Clémençon was Section Head at the International Affairs Division of the Swiss Environment Agency. In this capacity, he has been involved in a range of international and national environmental policy issues. He was one of the negotiators on the Rio Declaration and the Agenda 21during the Rio Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. He headed the Swiss delegations to 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; and has participated in many other international meetings and negotiations relating to environmental issues, such as on climate change, the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer, and in the OECD and the WTO on trade and environment. He was furthermore part of Switzerland's early attempts to develop a CO2 tax and a national sustainable development strategy. Since leaving his government post, Raymond Clémençon has served as a policy consultant for various international clients, including the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, the Swiss government, and the "International Task Force on Global Public Goods," initiated and funded by the French and Swedish governments. He was a member of the evaluation team conducting the First Overall Performance Assessment of the GEF, which served as input for the replenishment negotiations in 1998. At UCSD, Raymond Clémençon was a project director and senior research fellow at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) from 1994 through 1997. He has authored and co-authored a number of publications, including scholarly articles, consultant studies, and newspaper pieces. His research interests include international environmental institutions and negotiations, financing for global environmental benefits, trade and environment, green party participation in parliamentary democratic systems, and regional integration and democratization. Raymond Clémençon received his Ph.D. in international relations and comparative politics from the University of Zurich in 1988, a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983, and Bachelors degrees from the University of Basel in sociology and history. His awards include a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for post-doctoral research at Stanford University in 1988/89. Raymond Clémençon is married to Maria Charles, a Sociology professor at UCSD, and has three children. Publications Journal Articles and Book Chapters 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." Stockholm: International Task Force on Global Public Goods (ITFGPG). (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. --- Published by SAGE Publications Inc. Produced at The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego