Due to its devastating impacts, halting environment degradation has been one of the top priorities around the world. It is widely believed that such responsibility belongs to transnational organizations. While I do agree with the opinion, I suppose that local authorities should also join hands in such effort.
It is undeniable that national governments hold the power to take concrete actions to protect the environment. The primary reason is that only the local authority of each country can have an insight into its own problems and the authority to devise feasible measures. For example, only government officers know exactly which part of the nation has its environment heavily damaged, thus offer practical schemes to fix the situation. Therefore, governments, but not any other entity, should assume the duty to prevent their own environment from degrading.
However, I am convinced that transnational organizations also play a crucial role in protecting the environment. International institutions could enable multinational cooperation on a large scale. As a result, more global actions could be taken with the participation of different countries. This, in fact, could guarantee sustainable and drastic impacts on our surroundings since environmental problems usually across borders and beyond the capability of any single nation to solve. For example, countries along the Mekong River, such as Vietnam, Laos, China, and Cambodia, have reached an agreement to establish a transnational entity named Mekong Committee with certain power to tackle issues related to the shared waters. The organization has successfully stopped plans to build hydro-power dams in China or Laos to prevent foreseeable detriments to water conditions in the lower Mekong countries. This case illustrates the indispensable role of international entities in making vital environmental protection decisions in the context that nations are divided by their interests.
In conclusion, each country’s authority should bear the duty of keeping their countries from being environmentally degraded. However, it is the transnational organizations that play the deciding role with larger scale impacts
Due to its devastating impacts, halting
environment
degradation has been one of the top priorities around the world. It is
widely
believed that such responsibility belongs to transnational
organizations
. While I do
agree
with the opinion, I suppose that local
authorities
should
also
join
hands in such effort.
It is undeniable that national
governments
hold the power to take concrete actions to protect the
environment
. The primary reason is that
only
the local
authority
of each
country
can have an insight into its
own
problems and the
authority
to devise feasible measures.
For example
,
only
government
officers know exactly which part of the nation has its
environment
heavily
damaged,
thus
offer practical schemes to
fix
the situation.
Therefore
,
governments
,
but
not any other entity, should assume the duty to
prevent
their
own
environment
from degrading.
However
, I
am convinced
that transnational
organizations
also
play a crucial role in protecting the
environment
. International institutions could enable multinational cooperation on a large scale.
As a result
, more global actions could
be taken
with the participation of
different
countries
. This, in fact, could guarantee sustainable and drastic impacts on our surroundings since environmental problems
usually
across borders and beyond the capability of any single nation to solve.
For example
,
countries
along the Mekong River, such as Vietnam, Laos, China, and Cambodia, have reached an agreement to establish a transnational entity named Mekong Committee with certain power to tackle issues related to the shared waters. The
organization
has
successfully
stopped
plans to build hydro-power dams in China or Laos to
prevent
foreseeable detriments to water conditions in the lower Mekong
countries
. This case illustrates the indispensable role of international entities in making vital environmental protection decisions in the context that nations
are divided
by their interests.
In conclusion
, each
country’s
authority
should bear the duty of keeping their
countries
from being
environmentally
degraded.
However
, it is the transnational
organizations
that play the deciding role with larger scale impacts