"Global Agreements" focuses on the international connections. The shift to an ecologically fair economy cannot be achieved without multilateral co-operation; in fact it requires convergent initiatives and strategies. Especially a continent as rich and powerful as Europe can be expected to assume its responsibility in protecting not only human and citizens’ rights, but also its territory’s biosphere.
The main challenge for Europe lies in three areas. In international environmental politics much will depend on the question as to whether Europe will prove able to maintain its pioneering role and get the world on the bandwagon of shared responsibility. It would entail European companies’ fulfilling their civic duties and working towards an ecologically fair design of global chains of custody. This would require trade and external economic policies advocating that Europe abandon its hegemonic needs and exercise co-operative constraint in favour of economically weaker countries.
The Chapters:
- Cherishing Common Property: Environment, the Linchpin of World Domestic Policy
- Added Value: Responsible Global Chains of Custody
- Chaning the rules: Fair World Trade
