Next, we must organize the management of global risks on a planetary scale. Certainly, the international community has taken the measure of the urgency of providing global responses, as witnessed by the major post-Rio conventions. But the current stalemate in trying to implement them has brought to light the existence of serious obstacles. We must tackle these together. The first obstacle flows from the determination of States to cling to an outmoded conception of their sovereignty in this area.
Pollution knows no frontiers.
Interdependence calls for universal regulating mechanisms, for impartial and effective arrangements for the implementation and control of commitments entered into. We must start by establishing an impartial and indisputable global center for the evaluation of our environment. The first instruments for this purpose exist already. But they are scattered among many different international organizations. We need a single place that embodies the environmental conscience of the world.