Major Environmental Goals

• Environmental Protection
  and Climate Stability

• Protecting our Natural Resources
  of air, waters, forests and
  other essential ecosystems

• Protecting Biodiversity, along with
  endangered wildlife and their habitats

• Protections against environmental pollution and degradation of the air, waters, and land

• Protect special areas of natural beauty, scenic landscapes, and sacred lands

• Reduce human causes of climate change and initiate reversing measures

• Conservation of:
  1. freshwater and ocean ecosystems
  2. biodiversity of plants, crops and seeds
  3. wildlife, habitats, and areas of beauty
  4. rare and useful mineral resources
• Invest in:
  1. improving agricultural soil
  2. forest management and reforestation
  3. ecosystem & landscape restoration
  4. diverse plants and seed conservation
  5. nature-reserves for wildlife and birds
  6. conservation and rehabilitation of regional ecosystems and biodiversity
  7. managing ecosystem resources with nature-based solutions    
• International Agreements:
  1. Boldly move forward to implement
     the Paris Climate Agreement, while seeking international agreement to be more courageous in its goals
  2. Seek international agreements for protecting our globally shared resources; such as the air, the oceans, regional waterways, significant forests and other important ecosystems
  3. Effective measures for protecting global resources; such as economic penalties for violations and economic incentives for improvements

Monitor & Protect the Environment

• Monitor and protect all types of globally shared natural resources, along with all types of animal and plant biodiversity
• Monitor and protect the global atmosphere, ozone, and air quality
• Monitor and protect the oceans and rivers
• Monitor and protect our drinking water
• Monitor and protect the forests, jungles, mountains, plains, and wild lands
• Monitor and protect endangered wildlife
• Monitor and mitigate climate change
  and extreme weather
• Monitor the sources of carbon emissions
• Monitor air quality and toxic chemicals
• Monitor ocean-warming, acidification, ocean pollution, trash, micro-plastics, overfishing, harmful fishing practices,
  and degradation of ocean ecosystems.
• Create guidelines and best practices for sustainable fishing, sustainable agriculture, and ethical animal farming.
• Seek international agreements for global environmental protections, and agree on global economic penalties and incentives to achieve these protections.

Let's protect our Planet
and save the precious wildlife !

Also See...
The Economic Value of Biodiversity
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Environmental Accountability

Environmental accountability means to be transparent and accountable for all Environmental Costs involved in:

1. producing and using a product
2. using or depleting a natural resource
3. disrupting global climate patterns
4. disposing industrial and consumer waste

These costs need to be accounted for and
paid for by the businesses (or government agencies) that cause these environmental damages or depletions, due to their products, services or activities.

The environment commons, which includes our air, waters, public lands, important ecosystems and the biodiversity of plants
and animals, can all be protected by Laws
– but these laws need to be enforced by financial penalties or special taxes.

In addition, the environmental costs of dealing with non-recyclable consumer waste needs to be paid for by those consumers. This can be implemented by either a penalty, a tax, or a waste-disposal fee.

Another extremely important environmental problem is Climate Change, due to excessive carbon-emissions going into the atmosphere. Most environmental economists believe that this problem can be solved by a Carbon-Tax imposed on industries who either directly emit carbon-waste in their production processes or produce carbon-emitting products.

Reversely, 'economic incentives' can be given to businesses or community projects that:

• use environmentally-sustainable energies and production processes.
• help to heal the environmental harm already incurred on air, waters, or land.
• recycle domestic or industrial waste, or transform environmentally harmful substances into usable energy or products.

These economic incentives can be in the
form of specific tax-breaks, direct payments,
or interest-free business loans – given to businesses or community projects that are non-polluting, low carbon-emitting, energy-efficient, or effectively recycling. In other words, economic incentives are given for production-of-products and services that
either help reduce toxic & carbon pollution
or improve the eco-environment.

Climate Solutions

1. Urgently implement and monitor the
   Paris Climate Agreement to mitigate
   the causes of global climate-change,
   then seriously improve on its goals.

2. Adopt a whole-system approach
   by linking climate laws and taxes
   to other environmental agreements, protocols, and conventions.

3. Internationally agree on global penalties for environmental and climate violations, which can be payed into a globally supervised Environmental-Climate Fund that will distribute low-interest loans to green-clean businesses and production, renewable energies, and innovative solutions to global climate-change and environmental pollution.

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