ABSTRACT
This chapter does not offer a complete institutional review of the UN’s activities in the field of environmental protection. Such works exist elsewhere, and the issue deserves fuller treatment than can be afforded in one chapter. 1 The purpose of this chapter is to explore the conceptual and institutional limitations of global, intergovernmental cooperation on environmental questions. Thereafter, its purpose is to identify the larger picture of continuing negotiations and institutional reforms which have followed from the 1992 United Nations
