PRIORITIES IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION TO SOLVE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-PROBLEMS

In connection with the development of bilateral and multilateral inter national collaboration to solve global environmental problems the pape r advances some thoughts on the priorities. The paper is mainly concer ned 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 gl obal climate warming, which has dominated Russian collaborative progra mmes for some time; 2) the need to become aware of real 'climatic' pro perties (the roles of the dynamics of the biosphere, the atmosphere-oc ean interaction, cloud cover and radiation, the colloidal nature of th e atmosphere, etc.). Key problems of global ecodynamics, namely the Ea rth's thermal budget and the dynamics of the biosphere, are considered . Particular attention is paid to social and economic aspects of ecolo gy.