• Create and fund a single global agency to implement global standards, measurements, and policies on environmental matters
• Establish ability of global agency countries and individuals to bring lawsuits and other legal action against environmental transgressors across borders
• Adopt a simple set of standard global measures, including the atmospheric pollution standard index, to measure and communicate the state of affairs and to track progress
• Increase global monitoring and environmental education through the use of satellite and other new technologies
• Create regular forums, global and regional, to monitor progress, track problems, and respond appropriately -- issuing a clear and simple "annual report" on the state of the environment and annual trends in performance
• Adopt triple bottom-line accounting policies in all countries as part of new global accounting practice to ensure accurate reporting on environmental impact of corporations -- large and small
• Increase funding for population control programs
• Formalize CITES, the Rio and Kyoto Accords, along with a greater assurance of their implementation
• Adopt Californian vehicle emissions standards on a global scale
• Enforce a ban on uncontrolled or illegal clearance, cutting, and burning of original tropical rainforests
• Increase taxation on gasoline, coal, CFC, and other high impact pollutants
• Impose "green tax" on emission-intensive imports to reduce export of pollution
• Establish formal carbon-trading exchange to regulate, through price, the emissions markets
• Develop an effective alternative to Chinese lignite burning by, for example, building a pipeline from Siberia's enormous reserves of natural gas down to mainland China
• Increase reforestation programs in the United States, Europe, and selected high-potential emerging nations to offset tropical deforestation
• Develop scientific replanting schemes for maximum environmental efficiency
• Reduce harmful emission elements through improved engineering and control of vehicle engines and manufacturing plants
• Continue advances in quantity and quality of recycling initiatives
• Offer foreign aid to support low-cost environmental programs in emerging countries (e.g. develop cost-effective cutting and clearing equipment to replace clearance burning techniques)
• Incorporate environmental compliance elements to WTO and ISO certification processes

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