Analyzing policy gaps entails two challenges

First: Who are the actors and the relevant policymakers? Who made and implemented international policy?

Second: What are the types of actors who play an ever expanding role in the various sectors of the nation?

A policy necessarily entails both agency and purposive action. Although state actors are policymakers, they usually distinguish public policy from foreign policy, implying a boundary based separation between domestic and external activities. The United Nations, as much as it is an international Organization cannot foreign policy because they are not engaged in boundary activities. On the domestic front, the representatives and the senate may be able to do so. However, our policies are somewhat influenced by the international organizations that we are part of.

To put things in balance, the policymakers at the UN are actually the world body's principal political organs, the Security Council and the General Assembly. But these are intergovernmental forums. That is, the people making the decisions in the form of adopting resolutions that set out new governing principles, articulate goals, and authorize programs of action to achieve those goals do so as delegates of national governments from the UN's member states. Based on these considerations, some General Assembly resolutions are the equivalent of policy declarations in that they articulate broad principles and goals and call for programs of action to achieve these goals. A second set of "UN policy" documents might be goals, plans of action, and desirable codes of conduct embedded in international treaties and conventions. Good examples include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda,

promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment (environment. org). one of its program is the promotion of biodiversity.