PRIORITIES IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION TO SOLVE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-PROBLEMS

In connection with the development of bilateral and multilateral international collaboration to solve global environmental problems the paper advances some thoughts on the priorities. The paper is mainly concerned with the problem of global climate changes and the optimisation of the Global Climate Observation System. In addition the following are substantiated: 1) the inadequacy of the 'greenhouse' stereotype for global climate warming, which has dominated Russian collaborative programmes for some time; 2) the need to become aware of real 'climatic' properties (the roles of the dynamics of the biosphere, the atmosphere-ocean interaction, cloud cover and radiation, the colloidal nature of the atmosphere, etc.). Key problems of global ecodynamics, namely the Earth's thermal budget and the dynamics of the biosphere, are considered. Particular attention is paid to social and economic aspects of ecology.