Global Coordination: Weighted Voting | Chapter 12 | Emerging Issues and Development in Economics and Trade Vol. 3
In order to halt the depletion of
global ecological capital, a number of different kinds of meetings between
Governments of countries in the world has been scheduled. The need for global coordination
of environmental policies has become ever more obvious, supported by more and
more evidence of the running down of eco-logical capital. But there are no
formal or binding arrangements in sight, as global environmental coordination
suffers from high transaction costs (qualitative voting). The CO2
equivalent emissions, resulting in global warming, are driven by the
un-stoppable economic expansion in the global market economy, employing mainly
fossil fuel generated energy, although at the same time lifting sharply the GDP
per capita of several emerging countries. Only global environmental
coordination on the successful model of the World Band and the IMF
(quantitative voting) can stem the rising emissions numbers and stop further
environmental degradation. However, the system of weighted voting in the WB and
the IMF must be reformed by reducing the excessive voting power disparities,
for instance by reducing all member country votes by the cube root expression.
Author(s) Details
Jan-Erik Lane
University of Genova,
Genova, Switzerland.
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