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The United Nations And The Environment: Sometimes A Great Notion?, George P. Smith Ii

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This article presents an historical retrospective of the efforts of the United Nations to deal, rather unsuccessfully, with the global environment.

Today, as in the late 1970’s and the 1980’s, the success of transnational environmental programs cannot be measured within an isolated prism; but, rather, with a realization of resource interdependence. There is no over-arching principle of shared responsibility among the states which acknowledges an obligation for them to compromise sovereignty in the name of promoting the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The UN’s global protection plan, as it emerged from the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and …