The responsibility for the protection of the environment is by a transnational organization or every country?

Due to its devastating impacts, halting

environment

degradation has been one of the top priorities around the world. It is widely believed that

such

responsibility belongs to transnational organizations. While I do agree with the opinion, I suppose that local authorities should

also

join hands in

such

effort. It is undeniable that national governments hold the power to take concrete actions to protect the

environment

. The primary reason is that only the local authority of each country can have an insight into its own problems and the authority to devise feasible measures.

For example

, only government officers know exactly which part of the nation has its

environment

heavily damaged,

thus

offer practical schemes to fix the situation.

Therefore

, governments, but not any other entity, should assume the duty to prevent their own

environment

from degrading.

However

, I am convinced that transnational organizations

also

play a crucial role in protecting the

environment

. International institutions could enable multinational cooperation on a large scale.

As a result

, more global actions could be taken with the participation of different countries.

This

, in fact, could guarantee sustainable and drastic impacts on our surroundings since environmental problems usually across borders and beyond the capability of any single nation to solve.

For example

, countries along the Mekong River,

such

as Vietnam, Laos, China, and Cambodia, have reached an agreement to establish a transnational entity named Mekong Committee with certain power to tackle issues related to the shared waters. The organization has successfully stopped plans to build hydro-power dams in China or Laos to prevent foreseeable detriments to water conditions in the lower Mekong countries.

This

case illustrates the indispensable role of international entities in making vital environmental protection decisions in the context that nations are divided by their interests. In conclusion, each country’s authority should bear the duty of keeping their countries from being environmentally degraded.

However

, it is the transnational organizations that play the deciding role with larger scale impacts