A globalising world requires multilateralism to attain shared goals particularly the preservation of ecological security. While this can happen without the leadership of one country, citizens of the world increasingly look to the US for leadership in ad

The latest meeting on climate change did not bring the Kyoto Protocol any closer to being implemented. The protocol, established in 1997, asks industrialised countries to cut emissions of

The Bush administration s agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore increasingly shrill alarms from an overstressed natural world

It was only half a year ago, but events since the Johannesburg earth summit already make it seem like a distant event. The world has just seen an American engineered war in which the un was sidelined and the us paid scant regard to the views of even its t

US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about global rights to common property resources, equity and social justice

The New Zealand government proposes to promote the development of two wind farms by providing them Kyoto Protocol climate change credits for the energy produced. While one is a 36-mega watt (mw)