UNEP Environmental Performance ‎Assessment: From Expectations to Facts

The UNEP is at the heart of the current United Nations environmental structure and is the most important international environmental institution. The present study, due to the increasing prevalence of environmental problems, seeks to answer this fundamental question: has the UNEP, among a multitude of environmental norms and the multiplicity of related institutions, been able to play a pivotal role in international environmental governance in practice? Has its environmental performance met expectations? The present article will conclude that despite all the successes recorded in the available statistics and reports, the current structure of the UNEP cannot meet the environmental problems of the planet and it is unable to manage efficiently the planet's environmental problems and be able to monitor the performance of governments on the environmental commitments. Therefore, several suggestions have been made in this regard.