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with no binding clause for decreasing emissions and fastening the pace of
transition to low-carbon machines and devices.
Taking into account all these aspects, we can see that the problem lies
in the policy, which is based on the particular interests of each state. State
representatives in intergovernmental institutions are mainly concerned
with short term national interests. Even when national interests coincide
with global public interests, they are often limited based on institutionally
entrenched attitudes about their specifics and do not recognize the
possibility of collective action in the public interest.^26
However, the problem of overcoming institutional fragmentation and
the need for the creation of global institutions able to operate effectively
and responsibly on the world political scene and opposed to the national
and sectarian interests, remains the central challenge of our time.
Conclusion
The ingrained ways in which national governments implicitly use the
power of the executive and judicial branches are done with the purpose of
improving the lives of citizens who live within the territorial jurisdiction
of the state. On the other hand, a strong need for global governance, which
has shown up in the last decade, poses new questions. What level of
authority and legitimacy can be assigned to a system which could
successfully tackle the problems that exist in the modern world in the
sphere of economy, politics, security, and the preservation of nature and
life on our planet? The world system that we now have is such that
international institutions and legal frameworks by which the world order
operates represent an accurate picture of the historical model of the
distribution of economic, political, and cultural power. It is a system that
was unable to adapt quickly enough to the changes that have occurred in
the last twenty years.
Some of the problems result from differences in the cultural and
historical aspects that influence behavior at the national level. Another
reason could be the inability of some countries to adopt a global value
system at the national level. All of this creates new issues in terms of what
kind of global consensus could be achieved in terms of tools and targets in
relation to each case.
Of course, the point is that all these crises are connected in a way that
they are mutually induced. They can only be resolved by pursuing policies
(^26) Bagvati, U odbranu globalizacije, 263-285. The translation of the originall
book: Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization.