Global Environment

Environmental Solutions United Nations delegates have stressed the importance for the global community to protect the world's environment against rapid degradation. It is the responsibility of the international community to address these challenges which have taken a devastating tool on their economic and agricultural structure. In order to devise a method to battle these problems the UN has proposed a global Convention to Combat Desertification. This will be a forum to put policy and planning …

…puts many of the concepts we have learned in class into a modern context which not only effect third world nations but policy making within are country. Questions 1.What is the United Nations stance on environmental problems, what types of solutions have they proposed? 2.List one effect of desertification can have on a community? 3.What are some goals which the Convention to Combat Desertification looks to achieve? 4.What is the goal of the Kyoto Protocol?