This article explains why policy makers should seriously consider substantial early reductions in greenhouse gas emissions as a part of any post-Kyoto framework, and sets out suggested elements of a framework for early action in a post-Kyoto agreement. Substantial early reductions are needed...

The US-Mexico Border region faces environmental issues that parallel many global ones: a shared environmental commons, transboundary pollution issues, rapid economic development, poverty, and population growth. The challenges that the two countries have encountered in addressing these issues...

The present study explores the complex system of international relations in the promotion of international cooperation when addressing environmental problems. The global environmental challenges call for the immediate action of the international actors. The evolution of environmental diplomacy...

In the Tragedy of the Commons Hardin suggested that with respect to global commons we are trapped in a vicious circle where calculations of utility pushes us to keep polluting our own nest. This taken on a global scale has led to concerns about climate change and a realization that measures need...

On the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifteenth anniversary of the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, it is time for the global community to reflect on the future of our system of global climate...

Speaking of "emerging countries" seems to put these countries in a homogeneous category of States which could, then, be recognised some rights or be subjected to different obligations as developed, developing or the least developed States usually are, under differential treatment. However, when...