There are three key courses of action that the United Nations MUST follow if it is going to successfully achieve the support of the people world wide. First, they must inform the people of the problem. Secondly, they must give incentives that are very appetizing to nations that meet the standards that have been set. And finally, they must set up a unified research project.
First, the United Nations must achieve the support of the people around the world, and to do that they must inform these people of what the problem is and what they need to do. Over 75% of Americans do not know what the standards are that have been set to reduce carbon emissions. And we Americans pride ourselves as being informed, international citizens!
The United Nations has to take it into its own hands and inform the global population of the crisis we are facing, and present models and ideals that the common person can relate to, so as to give their support. Once the people are on the side that is prepared to stop global warming, the people will ask for a change in government. if the world cries out in one voice, governments will have little choice but to listen. Also, in many cases, not just those concerning the environment, intelligent, inform people are proven to be a greater boon than the common idiot.
Also, for the United Nations to meet the goals that they have set, which include dropping carbon emissions as much as by 25% in some areas, they must give incentives to countries who meet their goals. Since the United States is backing the United Nations with these goals, it would be very possible to give nice incentives to countries who reach their goals.
Such incentives could include, but would not be limited to, trade in food, clothing, and other commodities, financial aid, general aid, entrance to international organizations, etc. A list could go on forever of the benefits that the Untied States could easily give to third world countries that would make them drool. It is these incentives that, when countries see that they are for real and not a made up idea, would make other countries hurry to make their quota. Only one example is needed, and the entire world could soon be scrambling to lower carbon emissions.
Finally, another way the United Nations can get their message across to governments is by making a unified research team with scientists from nearly every country belonging to the United Nations. If such an international forum could be created, it would make it much easier for each individual country to stay connected because of the scientist(s) that they would have present. Also, while there have been reports on the issues of global warming, a majority of them have been published from Western countries, leading Eastern countries that are so desperately needed for the plan to work, like China and Russia, to distrust the findings. They feel that they are being pressured into following the Western solutions, and therefore will not cooperate. If there were an international research team with scientists from these countries also, then they would take the results more seriously as one of the publishers of the findings would be from their country.
As we can see, if the people are able to pressure their governments into action because they are informed, results will soon follow. If these governments were also given incentives, it would make them only more eager to meet their goal. And if the mandate came from a research project done, in part, by their own scientists, then they would feel much more comfortable accepting the data as the truth. In essence, we see that the United Nation must follow these steps if it is going to attempt to reach the goals that it has set for the world by 2020.
