This site is not updated. Lee's record of accomplishments during 22 years in Congress is quite remarkable, and I know of no more thoughtful and insightful leader on international affairs than he. Tom Lovejoy's contributions in the field of conservation biology are equally remarkable, and the Center is quite fortunate to have him, too. I'd be happy to do that if I only knew what it meant. Instead, I'd like to tell you where I think we're heading in terms of pursuing a global environmental agenda at the start of a new millennium.
Environmental issues represent a relatively new facet of diplomacy.
Some of us look at issues like climate change and biodiversity with the same sort of trepidation that many people feel for computers. I think we ignore at our peril. And by the same token, I think it unwise for us in the foreign policy world to be sanguine about environmental issues. A part of this evolutionary process toward a new way of thinking about the world is a broadening of the role of science and technology in the making of foreign policy. Today I'm talking to foreign policy scholars about the policy aspects of environmental diplomacy.