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No knowledgeable observer anticipates the emergence of a world government during the foreseeable future; many would find such a development unappealing, even if it were feasible. Yet the growing salience of policy issues arising in connection with global environmental changes — like ozone layer depletion, global warming and the loss of biodiversity — has already stimulated a surge of interest in responses featuring agreements that call for sustained international co-operation. This has led in turn to a proliferation of efforts to form new international regimes or, more broadly, international institutions to prevent or control the impacts of global environmental changes.
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Young, O.R. (1992). Global Environmental Change and International Governance. In: Rowlands, I.H., Greene, M. (eds) Global Environmental Change and International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21816-5_2
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