reasons why international cooperation is necessary in creating international environmental policies. Damage in one region of the globe will affect another. The United States efforts will be futile if other nations don’t cooperate. For example, if we develop a plan to clean the oceans and work on doing so and then other countries pollute the oceans, then the United States has to start all over and the oceans are still polluted. Another reason international cooperation is necessary is that will make protecting the environment easier if countries cooperate.There are many problems in the environment that the United States needs to work with other countries to solve. Currently, researchers are finding that overall the global temperature is changing. This climate change affects all nations and needs to be addressed by everyone though an international environmental policy. The pollution and over fishing of the oceans are also issues that need to be addressed globally. Endangered species throughout the world need to be protected. The destruction of tropical rainforests and desertification of good land needs to stop. Overall, the whole world must deal with the polluted air, oceans, and lands of the Earth.The global climate change is currently a very hot topic. The United States has entered treaties with other nations in regards to global warming. One such treaty is the United States-China Forum on Environment and Development. It is co chaired by Chinese Premiere Zhu Rongj and United States Vice President Al Gore. So far the committee has met three times and there are plans to meet a fourth in China. Currently, there are four groups that make up this joint committee. The groups are; Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, Science for Sustainable Development, and Commercial Cooperation. Different goals that these groups plan to work on are; trading biotechnological products that don’t hurt the environment, cleaner and mor...
