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World environment agency would ease chaos, says study
Reuters | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 | Reuters

Posted on 04/02/2002 3:58:35 PM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant

World environment agency would ease chaos, says study

Tuesday, April 02, 2002
By Reuters

UNITED NATIONS — A new world environment organization and an international environmental court would help make sense of the more than 500 environmental agreements and agencies now operating around the globe, researchers said recently.

Legal and environmental experts from the Tokyo-based U.N. University called on a U.N. development summit opening in Johannesburg in August to weigh creating a global body with powers over the environment similar to those of the World Trade Organization over international trade.

Their report said environmental regulation has emerged in an ad hoc and somewhat chaotic fashion over the past 30 years due to "the essentially random emergence of environmental issues onto national and international political agendas."

The soaring number of global environmental institutions argues strongly that the current system of international environmental governance is "too complicated (and) steadily getting worse," the experts said

They acknowledged that giving teeth to a new global agency was one of the most controversial aspects of the debate as governments are reluctant to turn over their powers to an outside body that could rule against them.

But "one of the core benefits to be offered by a judicial settlement system is that it could bring a much greater level of predictability to international environmental governance by ending serious violations of international environmental law regardless of the perpetrator," their report argued. In addition, problems like global warming and pollution simply transcend national interests, they said.

Report contributors included Steve Charnovitz of the U.S. law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; Peter Haas of the University of Massachusetts; Sebastian Oberthur of Berlin-based Ecologic; and Joost Pauwelyn of the World Trade Organization.

Copyright 2002, Reuters


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KEYWORDS: enviralists; freetrade; nwo; sovereigntylist; terrorwar; unlist
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To: Plummz; aristeides; roughrider; archy; LSJohn; Judge Parker; Chapita; Nita Nupress,
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21 posted on 04/02/2002 5:27:07 PM PST by madfly
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To: RightWingConspirator; umbra; Marobe; a witness; RedBloodedAmerican,
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22 posted on 04/02/2002 5:28:05 PM PST by madfly
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To: Boyd; Uncle Bill; thinden; Black Jade,
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23 posted on 04/02/2002 5:28:45 PM PST by madfly
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To: Donald Stone; Elle Bee; rdavis84; mancini; Mudboy Slim
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24 posted on 04/02/2002 5:29:17 PM PST by madfly
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To: madfly
You are right; I did NOT answer your question. I have no intention of answering it. I do not think it should be answered. We are ALL capable of sin, we ALL fall short of God's standard of righteousness. We are ALL deserving of hell.

I also disagree with your premise that God only works with those who want to be changed. He, many times, works outside of our wishes but always in accord with His lovingkindness.

25 posted on 04/02/2002 5:39:48 PM PST by Jemian
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To: Jemian
I do not know what happened. This answer is really a response to another thread. weird. I give up.
26 posted on 04/02/2002 5:43:16 PM PST by Jemian
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To: RightWhale; madfly
"One thing at a time. After the Red Sox win the World Series, then we'll take a look at this World Court, not that it is any more than a pipe dream."

That would be on or about April 11, '02.

27 posted on 04/02/2002 5:52:37 PM PST by rdavis84
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To: RightWhale
See this? --- World Court
28 posted on 04/02/2002 5:54:53 PM PST by rdavis84
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To: rdavis84
As you speak, our Arizona Diamondbacks' catcher, Damion Miller just hit a grand slam!!! off San Diego!! Score: 7-0 including 2 more home runs so far in the 3rd!

Wooooooooo Hoooooooo. Look what happens when you give a bunch of guys World Series Ring before a game!!!!! And of course, Randy Johnson pitched 9 inning shut out, last pitch of game 102 mph!!

Us Arizonan's don't often get braging rights!!! :)

29 posted on 04/02/2002 5:57:28 PM PST by madfly
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To: madfly
It's time to withdraw from the UN and NATO and all the other WORLD GOVERNMENT institutions.

It's time to remember George Washington's warning:

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it, for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.

Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.

And we should stop giving taxpayer money to foreigners.

30 posted on 04/02/2002 6:00:52 PM PST by jadimov
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To: madfly
Us Arizonan's don't often get braging rights!!! :)

sure ya do...



31 posted on 04/02/2002 6:05:41 PM PST by glock rocks
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To: glock rocks
Gimme a break!

NO NO NO!!!

32 posted on 04/02/2002 6:08:45 PM PST by madfly
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33 posted on 04/02/2002 6:44:28 PM PST by madfly
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To: madfly
A new world environment organization and an international environmental court would help make sense of the more than 500 environmental agreements and agencies now operating around the globe, researchers said recently.

Oh no! Another one!

34 posted on 04/02/2002 7:44:15 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: MadRobotArtist
Ditto!
35 posted on 04/02/2002 7:51:20 PM PST by kitchen
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To: madfly
They acknowledged that giving teeth to a new global agency ...

Future red zone newspaper headline:

UN Agency Suffers Dental Emergency


36 posted on 04/02/2002 8:11:53 PM PST by kitchen
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To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
The Globalists never quit, do they.
37 posted on 04/02/2002 9:15:18 PM PST by brat
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To: Myrddin
Like this gem from our local Pravda -"Allagash classified as endangered waterway"
38 posted on 04/03/2002 2:28:35 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: madfly
Their report said environmental regulation has emerged in an ad hoc and somewhat chaotic fashion over the past 30 years due to "the essentially random emergence of environmental issues onto national and international political agendas."

I suppose that randomness of environmental "issues" would result from the spectacle of groups of essentially unemployable socialists going for the gold ring of "jobs" that provide them with cover for their agenda (they deeply, deeply care), a paycheck and their cherished cloak of smugness. The hat trick.

Of course, like all good totalitarians everywhere, they need to be backed up by heavy guns; since their victims consistently resist surrendering their rights voluntarily.

No matter though, a couple of more generations' worth of government school propaganda, dilution of what's left of property rights, and public shows of punishment for dissenters - it'll all fall into place quite smoothly.

39 posted on 04/03/2002 2:41:32 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Phil V.
Hmm. I read it, all the way through, and it is just boiler-plate anti-Semitism.

"We Israelis have also been plagued by world mending. Like the founding fathers of the Reform movement, who believed the spiritually stimulating Jews' dispersal was God's blessing to the gentiles, we were foolish enough to think the Middle East would dance to our world-mending tunes. And like the Jews who had just emerged from the ghetto, simply making peace with our enemies wasn't enough for us - we wanted to change them. And so, like previous Jewish world-mending efforts, this one, too, ended in major-league failure, depression and bloodshed."

Precisely how did the Jews try to "change" the arabs?...other than to persuade them to stop killing women and children, etc.?

--Boris

40 posted on 04/03/2002 6:18:05 AM PST by boris
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