A Review of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and their Implications for Environmental Governance in Kenya
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Date
2007
Authors
Olukoye, Godfrey Alati
Mukanga, H.
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School of Environmental Studies and Human Sciences, Kenyatta University
Abstract
Newscientific evidence indicates that many global ecosystems are reaching
dangerous thresholds that raise the stakes for policymakers 0NWI, 2001). For
example,the Arctic ice cap has already thinned by 42 percent, and 27 percent
of the world's coral reefs have been lost, suggesting that some of the planet's
keyecological systems such as forests and mangrove systems are in decline.
Environmentaldegradation is also leading to more severe natural disasters, which
havecost the world $608 billion over the last decade-as much as in the previous four
decadescombined 0NWI, 2001). With many lifesupport systems at risk of long-term
damage, the choice before today's political leaders is historic, even revolutionary,
in nature: whether to move- forward rapidly to build a sustainable economy or to
riskallowing the expansion in human numbers, the increase in greenhouse gas
emissions,and the loss of natural systems to undermine the economy.
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Book Chapter