Towards a green World order: Environment and World politics

Global environmental problems need a political solution. One of the most difficult problems for environmental political theory is to determine what this solution would be. There are two basic conditions that any proposed ‘world order’ must satisfy: it must ensure that individuals and communities comply with environmental prescriptions, and that decision‐making is flexible enough to cope with environmental problems in all their complexity. Common conceptions of a world political order, centralist and anarchist, are not likely to satisfy these conditions. It must be considered also what developments in world society are most likely to bring about a world order capable of solving environmental and related problems.