Environmental Diplomacy in the Age of Global Sustainability: Challenges, Actors, and the Future of International Environmental Governance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59890/4kzdc330Keywords:
Environmental Diplomacy, International Agreements, Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, PollutionAbstract
In global debates, environmental concerns featuring international treaties and issues including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution dominate. The paper examines how diplomacy among states through international frameworks such as Paris Agreement and Kyoto protocols encourages a global shift towards sustainable development. The history, politics, and impacts of the environmental treaties are important-among other things- in explaining the difficulties of reconciling national interests with global notions of sustainability. The paper also reveals the problems for provisions of their effects such as non-compliance, affordability, and lack of political will as well as the roles of non-claimed actors such as multinational companies and NGOs. Finally, the piece addresses new methods and practices of environmental diplomacy as one of the variables of shaping the future international environmental relations in the context of new global and longer-term-based movements mainly focused on key issues of sustainability. The work points out the ways how the international community could deal with the issues of an increasingly changing world environment as well as strengthen the systems of global governance
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