s a big issue, butwith cooperation, a states sovereignty would not be threatened.For a state to call its self a sovereign one, there must not be an actor above thestate that can force it to act in specific ways. In a anarchic system, a sovereign stateco-exists with other sovereign states. States that compete for security, markets, andinfluential power in the international system. 5 Sovereignty protects these characteristicsof a country. When there needs to be an international governing body, then thesecharacteristics of the state might be threatened, and the state might be hesitant to allowsuch actors to be involved. Since the 1960s and 70s a large number of regimes,institutions, agreements and policies for the governance of environmental politics havebeen formed through the cooperation of hundreds of governments and international nongovernmental organizations. The challenge for these regimes and non governmentalorganizations is to promote the growth of sustainable living, preserving biological diversityequally in plants and animals, repairing existing damage to the climate, and preventingfurther damage in the future....
