Environmental Treaties

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The paper looks at the Kyoto Treaty which the United States, a significant contributor for global warming, rejected out of fear of economic hardship. The paper discusses the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Montreal Protocol, the Energy Charter Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The paper contends that these agreements have the capability to greatly affect the present and future status of our global environment, but only if all nations without exception agree to their principles and guidelines.

From the Paper:

"Since the advent of transcendentalism during the early to middle years of the 19th century in America, most notably linked to Thoreau and Emerson, numerous countries have created specific agreements aimed at protecting our natural environment. These agreements, known as treaties, can be defined as "formal agreements between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce or other international relations." Some of these treaties of recent and past origin include the Kyoto Protocol, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Montreal Protocol, the Energy Charter Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, all of which have been designed to protect our environment and assure that future generations will not be burdened by the environmental errors of today."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Alcwin.org.Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_9a.html.
• Congress Cuts CTBTO Funding: http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2005_12/Dec-CTBTO.asp.
• Encarta: http://www.encarta.com.
• Energy Charter Treaty: http://www.encharter.org/index.jsp?psk=02&ptp=tDetail.jsp&pci=265&pti=12.
• FAS: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/abmt.

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