Sustainable Development and Actors of Regional Environmental Governance: Eurasia at the Crossroads.

Fifth, another radical change in environmental regional governance involves the increased importance of China as a leading partner for Russia and most Central Asian states. The year 2022 has witnessed highly turbulent changes in all aspects of world politics and socioeconomic development, directly affecting global environmental politics and posing new challenges to the sustainable development agenda.[1] This concluding essay places the articles of this special issue into this new dynamic global context, accounting for the rising importance of new actors and changes in regional environmental governance in Eurasia. Using discourse analysis, Dubuisson ([16]) demonstrates that these protests, by appealing to the legal frameworks of the UN I and i to the historical legacies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), have led the government to revoke policies affecting land use and natural resources management. International (Dis-)engagement and Image-Building International influence and engagement have been the key triggers, not only in shaping the environmental standing of post-Communist states - including huge energy exporters such as Russia and Kazakhstan (Dubuisson [16]; Kochtcheeva [35]) - but also in the diffusion of democratic liberal values. [Extracted from the article]