It is impossible to reach a global consensus on environmental conservation efforts-do you agree?

I disagree that it is impossible to reach a global consensus on environmental conservation efforts. However, it is also incorrect to say that it is extremely easy to achieve it. When there is an "income divide" between the people of the world, how can they all possibly focus on something like the environment, which does not fulfill their basic necessities directly? When there are people dying of starvation in some countries, and when there are people in other countries facing obesity problems, how is is possible that the leaders from both nations can reach a consensus on anything, let alone the environment. In such cases where countries are unable to look at an issue from one point of view, as in the case of the environment, there must be some "middle-man" to allow both countries to look at the issue and understand how they can both benefit from it. In this case, we have the UN. With the UN, assuming it plays its role the way we think it is(the good guy way), then no nation will have a problem seeing how the saving of the environment benefits them, making the arriving at a consensus on environmental conservation efforts easy.

To reach a global consensus on environmental conservation efforts would be to get a perfect collaborative effort from all the nations of the world, including those not in the UN, that would ultimately lead to the saving of the environment. One example of how the countries of the world have tried and failed to achieve this, is the Kyoto Protocol. In this case, many developing countries and some of the largest carbon emitters of the world, USA, were not included. Without these countries, as he article on the Kyoto Protocol points out, the Kyoto Protocol could not even matter, let alone make a difference. Instead, had these countries all come together and tried to look at the most feasible way to change the downward trend that the environment is taking, the world could have turned out a very different place, despite the short time period. This is not impossible to achieve, and given that we have achieved the Kyoto Protocol, we could achieve this with a little more planning and a bit of understanding on the part of the countries of the world.

Also, if we achieved a global consensus on environmental conservation efforts, then everyone will be reducing their carbon footprint, and what Jia  Hao said in his post is no longer valid. This is because he has taken a very pessimistic view that no matter what he does as an individual, he is not decreasing the carbon emissions of the world in general. This is not true! If everyone did their part, then we would be on our way to achieving the goal of less than 1.2. tonnes of carbon per person per year!