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coated balloons. The Kyoto Protocol is one of more than 100
global environmental treaties negotiated over the past 40 years
to address pollution, fisheries management, ocean dumping and
other problems. But according to MIT Professor Lawrence
Susskind, an expert in resolving complex environmental disputes,
few of the agreements have done more than slow the pace of
ecological damage, due to lack of ratification by key countries,
insufficient enforcement and inadequate financial support. To
give the pacts bite--not just bark--Susskind is proposing a
series of reforms that include economic penalties for countries
that fail to meet the treaties' targets. Susskind will outline a
program to make global environmental treaties more effective and
treaty-makers more accountable in a presentation Saturday, Feb.
16, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston. The reforms he has in
mind include engaging civil s