IELTS Writing Task 2 — Climate Change

The international organisation should be responsible for addressing environmental issues rather than a single country. In my opinion i agree with this statement due to several reasons.

On the one hand, some might believe that environment problems are national governments responsibility due to some potential foundations. First, international can not demand or force a country to follow the law they implemented if they do not willing to. These global agency can only ask for cooperation. In fact, even one of the largest global group like The United Nations can only send documents to inquire about coordination from powerful countries including China, the USA and Vietnam without any means of compelling member states to act. Furthermore, there is no one size fits for all policy that can adapt to many countries due to the differences in geography and economy of different countries. If the intergovernmental organisation demand every countries to reduced the same amount of greenhouse gasses, it would be unfair for smaller countries that produce less gases and the fact that it will effect badly to the economy of these smaller countries.

On the other hand, in order to address the environment issue need a international organisation to stand up and take the responsibility because environmental problem is not a local problem but a global one and a single country can not make barely any difference to cure this crisis. Primarily, local pollution can affect badly to the whole ecosystem around the world and make consequences that irreversible. In fact, when factories in a single countrie emits greenhouse gasses it can contribute to the global problems and then accelerate the speed of many nature phenomenon such as melting glacier that rise the sea level posing threat to countries that have city lying under the sea level. Furthermore, fighting against climate change is not a thing that a individual country can possible do. In order to shift the climate trend need many countries that willing to sacrifice a part of their benefit for the earth. For example, only a small countries like Vietnam decided to cut down their industrial branch to become a green countries and big nation like China continue to release tons of carbon dioxide to the nature it will not make a difference.

Responsibility for tackling environmental problems should lie primarily with international organisations rather than individual national governments. I agree with this view because many environmental problems cross borders, although national governments still have an important role in implementing local measures.

On the one hand, national governments are necessary because international bodies cannot directly control every country's domestic policy. Governments can regulate local industries and adapt environmental measures to their own economic and geographic conditions. A single global rule may therefore be impractical: asking every country to make identical emissions cuts could place very different burdens on richer and poorer economies. This means national authorities remain essential for enforcement and local implementation.

However, international coordination should take the leading role because the most serious environmental problems are not confined to one country. National action is therefore necessary but insufficient on its own. Greenhouse-gas emissions produced in one place contribute to global warming, which can accelerate glacier melt and sea-level rise far beyond the country where the emissions originated. International organisations can provide common targets, coordinate commitments and help countries share scientific and technical knowledge. For example, if one country reduces emissions while major emitters continue as before, the overall effect will be limited; coordinated action creates a much stronger collective impact. Such coordination also helps national policies move in the same direction instead of working against one another.

In conclusion, national governments should continue to enforce environmental policy within their borders, but international organisations should take primary responsibility for coordinating action on cross-border problems such as climate change.