Cooperative Threat Reduction

Posted on December 03, 2011 by Admin
Cooperative Threat Reduction

Cooperative Threat Reduction

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, climate issues, which contribute to global warming and loss of biodiversity, should be among the primary environmental concerns. However, the fight to determine the existence of global warming rages on and neither side will yield its position. If global environmental protection measures are to be implemented, new directions must be considered. Lamont C Hempel states that cooperative policies that address "transboundary and multilevel approaches to environmental problem solving" need to be created. Key target issues must be identified and addressed.

Global Environmental Protection Policy

A global environmental protection policy requires that the aggregate problem and possible solutions be identified before joint action is taken. If environmental protection responsibilities are to be doled out in an international forum, some standards and goals have to be set. The pollution monitoring and data reporting efforts have to be uniform across the board. The ambient air and water quality conditions have to be set at realistic and achievable levels.

Economic analyses have to be conducted to create a global incentives program. This is an important issue because each country has its own policies for pollution control measures and methods; there is no one correct way for alleviating the problem.