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Article: Strengthening the global environmental treaty system: despite the huge media attention environmental treaties receive, the system of making and implementing them is barely functioning.(ENVIRONMENTAL TREATIES)
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- Issues in Science and Technology
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- September 22, 2008
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The global environmental treaty-making system--the set of mechanisms by which countries fashion agreements to promote more sustainable development--is not working very well. More than 400 multilateral agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol on climate change now exist, and new treaties are continually being added that address a wide range of problems, including the loss of endangered species and habitats, increasing levels of ocean dumping, the unregulated transshipment of hazardous substances, and desertification. Yet there is no evidence to suggest that the problems these treaties are intended to address are being corrected. There is a variety of reasons why the "system" ...