Santa Barbara, California 93106-5131

 

Raymond Clémençon teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Global and International Studies Program, the Sociology Department and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environment and Development an interdisciplinary and international journal established in 1992. His policy research interests and teaching cover international environmental institutions, agreements and negotiations, international organizations and globalization, development financing, and comparative environmental policy and politics in Europe and the US.

Prior to joining UCSB in the fall of 2008,  Raymond Clémençon taught at the University of California in San Diego at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS), and in the Environmental Studies Program and the Political Science Department. He has work on international environmental policy issues since 1989 first as a government representative and later researcher and policy consultant. Until 1994, he was Section Head at the International Affairs Division of the Swiss Environment Agency, and one of the negotiators on the Climate Convention, the Rio Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, and during negotiations establishing the Global Environment Facility, GEF, a multilateral environmental financing mechanism associated with the World Bank, UNDP and UNEP. In the early 90s he was involved in Switzerland's national effort to develop and implement a CO2 tax and a national sustainable development strategy.

Raymond Clémençon has served as a policy consultant for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Washington DC, 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, and an adviser to the GEF secretariat during the 5th GEF replenishment negotiations in 2009. As of 2010 he is an advisor to the Swiss government on the establishment of the Green Climate Fund, which is expected to serve the UN Climate Convention as the main financing mechanism for mitigation and adaptation measures to be undertaken by developing countries.

Eduction: Ph.D. in international relations and comparative politics from the University of Zurich (1988), 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). 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. " 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.
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.

(updated: October 15, 2011)