International Community in Convincing Developing Term Paper

" (McDonald-Gibson, 2007) Therefore, although the entire planet suffers the consequences, it is a limited part of its inhabitants that perpetuates the crisis. From this perspective, developing nations demanded, on a regular basis even, the right to speak out their intentions and to have a unified position in terms of promoting sustainable development and implicitly the general environmental policies promoted by the UN.

Yet another element is in fact in relation to the previous two. Developed nations, although somewhat reluctant to their limitation of economic practices that would increase the limit of emissions, promised strategies and results for succeeding in reducing the greenhouse effects and all the additional side remarks. In this sense, throughout the debates on environmental policies, states such as Canada, France, and the United States would sponsor any initiative with the precise target. Therefore, there are some proposals for developing nations to reduce their need for fuel. These include the introduction of wind-based energy, the need to address the issue of renewable sources of energy so that the dependence on fossil fuel and oil in particular be reduced. (Rosenqvist, Imhoff, Milne, and Dobson, 1999)

Despite these lofty initiatives, the general guidelines of the Kyoto Protocol require actions that target long-term effects, rather than an immediate response to the crisis of the environment. In this sense, one possible immediate solution would be to focus more on immediate plans of action that would target the development of the poor countries in terms of environment, and less on the eventuality of their sanctions in case they fail to reach the agreed quotas. (Kulovesi and Kein nen, nd) Moreover, poor countries cannot be sufficiently stimulated through financial incentives if they consider themselves victims of the capitalist countries. This perspective is sometimes expressed in relation to the lack of agreement among major powers to reduce their emission gases. Therefore while countries such as the U.S. demand the reduction of the pollution level, they are one of the most important polluting agents.(Hollo and al., nd) From this perspective, the legal framework which politically binds poor countries apparently does not apply to the rich ones, and this observation may determine the former to reconsider their attachment to environmentally friendly policies.

Overall, it can be said that in order to face up to the challenge of the crisis of the environment, solutions and forums are not the answer on the long run, but rather the dilligent implementation of the agreements reached.

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