help and spend money on issues such as global climate control as it was the more industrial countries that created the damage. Also the developing countries have not had the chance to acquire the experience that the other countries have. The latest attempt at universal environmental reform was at Kyoto. The countries gathered together and formed the Kyoto treaty. The treaty did not address issues such as when or where the clean up should start, nor did it give any suggestions on ways to cut emissions. There were ideas thrown out, such as the idea of each country having pollution credits or for the amount of CO2 released, a country has to replant forests. None of these ideas led to any agreements. There were still major issues between the developed and developing countries.As one has seen throughout history, environmental issues are universal and have been ongoing for some time. What effects the environment affects the whole world. The problem is that separate countries cannot agree on different issues. Each country is working separately on certain issues, but the UN cannot bring the countries together. This is because of the divide between developed and developing countries. The developing countries prefer to spend their money on developing themselves first, then on helping to clean up the world. They also believe that since the developed countries had the choice to pollute the environment for their development, they should also have the same right, possibly to a lesser extent. The combination of these two problems has created a great divide when dealing with international policies on how to deal with environmental issues. The intent of the UN is to make environmental issues universal, and although the problem is widespread, the solutions are ruled by great power interests and their economic superiority. ...
