The Kyoto Protocol and the Logic of Collective Action

Global warming, as a result of increased greenhouse gas emissions, is the most critical environmental issue today. More than half of the world's environmental experts participating in the 1999 United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) investigation were agreed on the crucial nature of climate change and its threat to humanity. The prospect of further damage to the earth's atmosphere threatens the global ecosystem upon which humanity relies for its development and very existence. Global warming and how to deal with it, therefore, are problems that extend beyond international environmental issues to politics, economics, culture, and diplomacy. Consequently, it has considerable influence on modes of production and consumption