 Globalization of production and trading has generated a rapidly evolving policy landscape. Gone are the days where you had a central government and the diplomats making agreements as to what the policy was going to be and shaking hands and going back to their countries and implementing these approaches from the top down. And now the reality, the policy making reality involves a wide variety of new actors and a wide variety of methodologies that previously operated at a much more limited scale. So what we're seeing now is we're seeing lobbying groups that are both rooted in activism and are also in some cases financed by corporations. We're also seeing groups of scientists and engineers organizing themselves and being organized by different governments entering into the equation of dictating and creating rules and regulations for the environment. Finally, we see cities emerging as models for how a certain type of mitigation may take place and creating a number of different laboratories where concepts can be tested at a much smaller scale. Modern environmental governance may have diverse sources and diverse actors. However, the asymmetries between the developed north and the developing south still exist and there is a great deal of mistrust that comes from a long history of interactions between countries with very different degrees of industrialization.