The role of the State remains crucial in the development of environmental policies for the 21st century. The State, through its various organizations, is involved in the implementation of policies related to the direct and active manipulation of the environment (Wilson, 1997). The state develops a set of rules governing access to and withdrawal from the resource stock (Grafton, 2000). For example, forestry officials, such as the United Kingdom Forestry Commission, directly manage and operate state forests. The indirect political role of the state in environmental management is often considered the most important. The particularity of the State is that it exercises control through coercion over a given territory. From an environmental management policy perspective, this is important as the state is legally able to force non-state environmental managers to pursue their own environmental policies and perspectives (Wilson, 1997). State policies designed to regulate logging on private and public lands are enforced through legal acts, and any violation of these regulations could result in prosecution. These official policies require non-state environmental managers to change their practices in accordance with rules set by the state (Wilson, 1997; UK Forestry Standard, 2011). Therefore, state environmental management policies are designed to control the environmental management practices of other groups associated with takings and additions to the environment. The particularity of the political role of the State lies in the fact that it assumes a great responsibility in promoting the common good for all on the national territory and that it has the authority to fulfill it. The state therefore plays a huge role in shaping environmental policies. Alt...... middle of paper ......nge. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity are both environmental regimes established under the auspices of the United Nations. Agreements like these provide a criterion for positive environmental action while the corresponding protocols outline specific ways to address particular aspects of the overall environmental problem. As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol assigns emissions reduction targets to States, aimed at reducing global warming. Environmental management internationalism relies primarily on engagement, negotiations, and agreements between individual states. This new environmental management structure reflects the growth of a global civil society and has mobilized states internationally..