A Stand Against International Apathy towards Environmental Issues
Environmental issues entered the international political mainstream over fifty years ago, and were spurred on by UN conferences in 1972 (UNCHE), 1992 (UNCED) and 2002 (WSSD); yet a specialised agency focused on environmental devastation is non-existent. Soros (2002) called for the creation of a new body to defend public goods including environmental interests, human rights, animal rights and social welfare (the long term consequences of the first are so threatening they deser