Study On Contemporary U.S. Environmental Diplomacy Policy--Taking Copenhagen Conference As An Example

The U.S. environmental diplomacy had been through a40-years-unevenful development ever since its first issued clause. Progress and regression alternated circularly. However, the environmental diplomacy attitude of the Obama administration has hovered recently, it is worthy analyzing and thinking the deep reasons behind this phenomena, such as their purpose and their regulation. Also it is worthy thinking how to deal with it and what we can learn from it.Contemporary human beings are facing innumerable challenges, but the real challenges which could destroy the whole world are nuclear wars and the global problems caused by human activities. Jared Diamond, a scientist,an American physiology, geography and evolutionary biologist must be mentioned again here, this cautious optimist points out that social life of modern human beings is not sustainable and distant, the children and youth must solve the environmental problems in their lifetime.whether we solve the problems in a positive way or passively accept unpleasant results will decide the trend of the future world.Through all discussion, this paper will mainly clarify the following key issues: Firstly,,what is the true trend of American environmental diplomacy in the "post-Kyoto era ";Secondly, is there a new setback of the U.S. environmental foreign policy during the Obama administration;The third one is whether the U.S. environmental foreign policy becomes a powerful tool interfering other countries’ internal affairs instead of human rights policy, Finally, what should be done in dealing with U.S.government and learn from the U.S. Environmental Foreign Policy.The whole paper will focus on the resilience of America in the past few decades and display the trends of current foreign environmental policy.simultaneously, by analysing Obama’s speech in the Copenhagen World Congress, the true purpose behind the U.S. Government’s attitude will be explored. As the birthplace of foreign environment policy, every single policy that the U.S. government issued has an imply meaning deep inside. These needs to be excavated and refined in deep.