Green Diplomacy – The Chance to Mitigate the Effects of the Economic Crisis in the Context of Sustainable Development

This study presents the main developments regarding the current ‘green diplomacy’. The transboundary nature of pollution, the natural ‘solidarity’ of the environmental factors, the export of pollution or the affirmation of the global ecological issues, such as the greenhouse effect and the climate change, the ozone layer, the biodiversity conservation, desertification, etc. require specialized international development cooperation at bilateral, regional or global scale. We think that the main instrument to promote it represents a new kind of diplomacy, more ‘technical’, more flexible and more direct: ‘the green diplomacy’ or the ecological diplomacy.