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Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Learning from CITES CoP17

Author(s) -

Alfie Christopher Byron Gaffney,

Darrick Evensen

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

global environmental politics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.555

H-Index - 56

eISSN - 1536-0091

pISSN - 1526-3800

DOI - 10.1162/glep_a_00537

Subject(s) - cites , opposition (politics) , conference of the parties , convention , endangered species , citizen journalism , political science , corporate governance , consolidation (business) , threatened species , political economy , politics , international trade , business , ecology , economics , law , biology , habitat , management , accounting

The seventeenth Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference of the parties (CoP) exhibited a draconian opposition to any trade in ivory. A key component of this opposition was the intergovernmental regime’s consolidation of North–South power differentials through the increased presence and influence of Northern conservation-focused NGOs. Using the example of ivory, this Forum article unpacks this dynamic before advocating for more participatory, decentralized, and polycentric approaches to the global governance of endangered species trade at future CITES CoPs.

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