173. Enforceable international agreements are urgently needed, since
local authorities are not always capable of effective intervention.
Relations between states must be respectful of each other’s sovereignty,
but must also lay down mutually agreed means of averting regional
disasters which would eventually affect everyone. Global regulatory
norms are needed to impose obligations and prevent unacceptable actions,
for example, when powerful companies or countries dump contaminated
waste or offshore polluting industries in other countries.
I agree. There needs to be an accounting of the progress or lack of it a country is making to reverse this very dangerous trend.
174. Let us also mention the system of governance of the oceans. International and regional conventions do exist, but fragmentation and the lack of strict mechanisms of regulation, control and penalization end up undermining these efforts. The growing problem of marine waste and the protection of the open seas represent particular challenges. What is needed, in effect, is an agreement on systems of governance for the whole range of so-called “global commons”
In seeking enforcement of environmental pollution of greenhouse gases, one has to realize the USA cannot simply be allowed to provide such an authority. It has to be a panel of accountability and I suggest the IPCC be such a governing organization. It is already organized in international cooperation and has the highest integrity in reporting on Earth's delicate balance. I suggest the IPCC, no different than the IAEA, can bring facts to an international stage to render whom is cooperating and whom is achieving in this race to save our planet.
175. The same mindset which stands in the way of making radical decisions to reverse the trend of global warming also stands in the way of achieving the goal of eliminating poverty. A more responsible overall approach is needed to deal with both problems: the reduction of pollution and the development of poorer countries and regions. The twenty-first century, while maintaining systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tends to prevail over the political. Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions. As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity with the social teaching of the Church: “To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago”.[129] Diplomacy also takes on new importance in the work of developing international strategies which can anticipate serious problems affecting us all.
It just seems to me there is a far more need for fair hearings and fines and/or prison. The world doesn't stand by when administering justice for genocide. The USA general assembly along with the IPCC's findings should conduct themselves no differently than any other method of killing innocent people.
The global community needs to get serious and in a hurry.
I agree. There needs to be an accounting of the progress or lack of it a country is making to reverse this very dangerous trend.
174. Let us also mention the system of governance of the oceans. International and regional conventions do exist, but fragmentation and the lack of strict mechanisms of regulation, control and penalization end up undermining these efforts. The growing problem of marine waste and the protection of the open seas represent particular challenges. What is needed, in effect, is an agreement on systems of governance for the whole range of so-called “global commons”
In seeking enforcement of environmental pollution of greenhouse gases, one has to realize the USA cannot simply be allowed to provide such an authority. It has to be a panel of accountability and I suggest the IPCC be such a governing organization. It is already organized in international cooperation and has the highest integrity in reporting on Earth's delicate balance. I suggest the IPCC, no different than the IAEA, can bring facts to an international stage to render whom is cooperating and whom is achieving in this race to save our planet.
175. The same mindset which stands in the way of making radical decisions to reverse the trend of global warming also stands in the way of achieving the goal of eliminating poverty. A more responsible overall approach is needed to deal with both problems: the reduction of pollution and the development of poorer countries and regions. The twenty-first century, while maintaining systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tends to prevail over the political. Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions. As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity with the social teaching of the Church: “To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago”.[129] Diplomacy also takes on new importance in the work of developing international strategies which can anticipate serious problems affecting us all.
It just seems to me there is a far more need for fair hearings and fines and/or prison. The world doesn't stand by when administering justice for genocide. The USA general assembly along with the IPCC's findings should conduct themselves no differently than any other method of killing innocent people.
The global community needs to get serious and in a hurry.
