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Branko Bošnjaković ((University of Rijeka, Croatia, Formerly UN Economic Commission for Europe)) (2013), Environment and climate change as geopolitical issues in the Asias: What can be learned from the European experience, Globality Studies Journal No. 35, July 26, 2013.While the European Union’s environmental achievements have proved important the next major issue is the pan-European cooperation in the broader region covered by the UN Economic Commission for Europe. When improving security in Europe became a common geopolitical goal in the 1970s and 1980s, several conventions on transboundary environmental issues,including air, water, impact assessment, and industrial accidents were established. Beyond their technical implications and successes, such agreements have potential to prevent transboundary conflicts that are now opening to all UN member states. The lessons learned with transboundary agreements and negotiations as well as those regarding regional seas, such as the Baltic and Caspian, could be useful for cooperation in Asia. On climate change mitigation, Europe’s role tends to become marginalized in comparison with geopolitical actors like the big Asian economies and the US, which are less willing to come to an effective global agreement on greenhouse gases reductionRead the full text of tha article : http://globality.cc.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/035BBo%C5%A1njakovi%C4%87.pdf