France proposes world government

Well, not really.  But if you really want to have an international agency with cross-boundary power, that could carry out enforcement of environmental regs around the world, with enough force to make them stick and work, then you're giving the UN a lot stronger power than it has ever enjoyed before.   And given the fisheries disaster that is unfolding tragically in the Southern Ocean, emblematic of the "everyone in it for themselves" parochial nationalistic mentalities, then many of us can see why such an environmental agency would be desirable.

100 countries back world environment agency: France

  "But rather than be just a branch of the UN, the proposed agency would help implement international environmental standards and include grassroots groups and business, according to the proposal."

and more:

It should be part of a rethink of the world's economy, in which green issues and social questions should be integrated into the search for profit, she [French ecology minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet]  said.

"The new capitalism which emerges from the crisis has to be environmental, or it won't be new," she said.

"We are looking for a new kind of environmental governance, something more inclusive, in which all parties have a stake and it's not just governments which have the right to speak."

Good luck with that.  Good luck to us all, because this is what we need, right?  The United States is obviously on board with this great idea, right?

Wrong. " the United States "has yet to back" to the proposal, citing questions of sovereignty."

With attitudes like that, the whole world could get considerably f*cked up.