It has failed to push us further along to know how law is behaving and what to do when the law does not meet our environmental goals. T he project will generate knowledge about institutional design. This approach is necessary because of the great range and variety of targeted international environmental problems. These may be attempts to control the decentralized non malicious actions of millions of human beings simply living their consuming lives. Regions of nation states or individual countries create other challenges with extra regional effects.
Some environmental insults manifest themselves immediately in clear and dramatic ways.
Some will take years if not decades to register on much of the world population. No single treaty design can cover all of these environmentally destructive behaviors.