ers the environment is currently facing. We need to act multilaterally with regional powers. There are treaties we have signed but not ratified or put into force. The United States needs to follow through with the treaties that have been signed but not ratified. Currently, some treaties that are still “on the table”, and should be signed and put into force are; the Basal Convention on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, the Kyoto Protocol, Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Convention to Combat Desertification. These are some of the treaties that the United States needs to sign so that we can then say that we are definitely working towards improving the global environment through international treaties....