High stakes

Article Abstract:

This article discusses some of the international political debates surrounding the United Nations' response to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 on climate change that obliges nations to reduce their greenhouse emissions. The agreement has economic as well as environmental implications; the flexibility of the protocol is controversial and involves how pollution is to be cut, issues concerning how emissions trading allows countries to buy cheap permits from someone else so they do not have to reduce emissions domestically, and how the protocol does not say which emissions need to be reduced.

Environmental aspects, Political aspects, Pollution, Emissions credit trading, Emissions trading, Control, Climatic changes, Climate change, Greenhouse effect, United Nations Conference on Climate Change, 1997

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Fit to govern?

Article Abstract:

This article discusses the creation of cyber-states on the Internet; their demands to be recognized in the 'real' world; and issues of what constitutes grounds for sovereignty, which is usually territory, government and people. Virtual states claim the management of their web-sites as a grounds for government, financial transactions resulting in 'citizenship' produce a people to be governed, and dominions constitute territory which is also free from the constraints of geopolitics.

Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Domain names, States, New, Newly independent states

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Long arm of the law

Article Abstract:

This article discusses the United Nations' efforts to handle international crime; the Convention establishes offences that include participation in organized crime, corruption, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. The author asserts that criminal activity undermines the authority of governments.

Laws, regulations and rules, International aspects, Social policy, Immigrants, Crime, Smuggling, United Nations

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