Climate change, transnational pollution spillovers and overfishing are chief examples of problems that cannot be solved by one country acting alone. Rather, it is collective action, in some cases on a world-wide scale, that would be required to overcome these and other environmental challenges. Yet the community of nations has frequently failed to put in place adequate mechanisms to do the job of protecting the global natural commons, a circumstance recently illustrated when it took so long for the Kyoto Protocol on climate change to be ratified and put into effect; and at the time of ratification, there were notable absences. The Center will contribute to seeking viable alternative responses to address this and other global environmental problems.

Climate Change Mitigation after 2012. Conference October 21 and 22, 2005.