More generally, too, the advances of global environmental care must not be exaggerated.
Efforts to address global warming have proved especially frustrating, as implementation of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change has proceeded with painful slowness.
Various proposals have circulated for carbon taxes and other 'clean development mechanisms', but half a dozen UN conferences since 1992 on climate change change have yielded limited concrete results.
Indeed, refusals by the Chinese and US governments to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol have severely undercut this key attempt to set legally binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases.
As for connections between global commerce and environmental degradation, the Doha Declaration of 2001 for the first time promised that a future cycle of trade liberalization talks would deal specifically with environmental issues.
However, it is not yet clear when such a ‘green round’ of WTO negotiations might take place.
Nor has general backing yet developed for a World Environment Organization that world on a par with the WTO and other global governance agencies .
Hence at least some of the ecological insecurities associated with contemporary globalization can be attributed to laissez-faire policies rather than to the fact of transplanetary connectivity itself.
Many global relations are polluting, but others do not have to be, and suitable global regulations can promote ecological integrity, not lower it.
The primary indictment for environmental degradation should therefore be addressed to neoliberalism as a particular kind of globalization and not to globality as such.
More generally, too, the advances of global environmental care must not be exaggerated.Efforts to address global warming have proved especially frustrating, as implementation of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change has proceeded with painful slowness.Various proposals have circulated for carbon taxes and other 'clean development mechanisms', but half a dozen UN conferences since 1992 on climate change change have yielded limited concrete results.Indeed, refusals by the Chinese and US governments to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol have severely undercut this key attempt to set legally binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases.As for connections between global commerce and environmental degradation, the Doha Declaration of 2001 for the first time promised that a future cycle of trade liberalization talks would deal specifically with environmental issues.However, it is not yet clear when such a ‘green round’ of WTO negotiations might take place.Nor has general backing yet developed for a World Environment Organization that world on a par with the WTO and other global governance agencies .Hence at least some of the ecological insecurities associated with contemporary globalization can be attributed to laissez-faire policies rather than to the fact of transplanetary connectivity itself.Many global relations are polluting, but others do not have to be, and suitable global regulations can promote ecological integrity, not lower it.The primary indictment for environmental degradation should therefore be addressed to neoliberalism as a particular kind of globalization and not to globality as such.
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