Global Environmental Agreements: Insights and Implications

International environmental agreements are enforced and accepted by countries to address the environmental problems. The process of negotiation and mediation has become a customary form of international activity mutually acceptable by the countries to resolve or manage the international environmental disputes by non-violent means. International environmental agreements are part of global environmental governance under which risky environmental policy decisions are taken for the uncertain and risky environmental issues, disasters through the multilateral treaties, conventions, declarations and protocols. More than 150 international environmental treaties have been adopted since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on Human Environment which illustrated global attention to the dangers of transboundary pollution and rapid resource depletion. The book has two sections which introduce and discuss the evolution of various international environmental issues, agreements and perspectives among various countries focusing on the principles of sustainable development. They are I) Introduction II) Issues and Perspectives. The book discusses the formulation, implementation and enforcement of transboundary environmental agreements. The issues and perspectives under various existing treaties in the form of resolving and preventing the global environmental issues are addressed. The book highlights some of the successful treaties implemented and their functioning which may provide direction for new policy decisions.