By the way, you can read "the UK" for "the USA".
I have downloaded Our Global Neighbourhood, the report of the Commission on Global Governance. Below are some excerpts from it that I found disturbing.
The Commission report recommends:
The U.S. is required to eliminate its nuclear-weapons, and all weapons of "mass destruction" that are not under the U.N. control. Military force as a legitimate political instrument is reserved for the U.N. National military capabilities beyond small arms are considered a threat. Possession of weapons by private citizens is prohibited. We are to finance a Demilitarization Fund to provide assistance to developing countries in reducing their military commitments.
We are to finance the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in countering destabilizing shocks, is constrained by limited resources. A start must be made in establishing schemes of global financing of global purposes, including charges for the use of global resources such as flight lanes, sea- lanes, and ocean fishing areas and the collection of global revenues agreed globally and implemented by treaty.
An international tax on foreign currency transactions should be explored as one option, as should the creation of an international corporate tax base among multinational companies. It is time for the evolution of a consensus on the concept of global taxation for servicing the needs of the global neighbourhood. The rules and sense of order, such as policing and justice, financial stability, or environmental protection; generally come from government. The same responsibility applies at an international level. The United Nations and its membership are now facts of life, and compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court should be enforced.
The Economic Security Council (ESC) will continuously assess the overall state of the world economy and the interaction between major policy areas; provide a long- term strategic policy framework in order to promote stable, balanced, and sustainable development; secure consistency between the policy goals of the major international organizations, particularly the Bretton Woods bodies and the World Trade Organization (WTO); and give political leadership and promote consensus on international economic issues. Radical debt reduction is needed for heavily indebted low-income countries.
"We support the European Union's carbon tax proposal on burning fossil fuels, while declaring that all carbon removing processes (i.e. plants and other natural processes) belong to the U.N. Permanent Security Council membership limited to five countries that derive their primacy from events fifty years ago is unacceptable; so is the veto by the U.S. We propose a process of reform in two stages.
First, a new class of five 'standing' members who will retain membership to the second stage of the reform process should be established. They will be selected by the General Assembly and we envisage two from industrial countries (to pay for everything) and one each from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (to make demands). The number of non- permanent members should be raised from ten to thirteen, and the number of votes required for a decision of the Council raised from nine to fourteen. To facilitate the phasing out of the veto, the permanent members should enter into a concordat agreeing to forgo its use save in circumstances they consider to be of an exceptional and overriding nature...
The second stage should be a full review of the membership of the Council, including these arrangements, around 2005, when the veto can be phased out; the position of the permanent members will then also be reviewed, and account taken of new circumstances - including the growing strength of regional bodies.
It is not fair, for example, for the developed countries, which contain 20 percent of the population, to use 80 percent of the natural resources. It is not fair for the permanent members of the Security Council to have the right of veto. In general, it is not fair for one segment of the population to be rich while another segment of the population is poor. The right to earn a fair living implies that there must be some kind of a job available from which people may earn their living.
Under the auspices of a new Economic Security Council, which we will discuss later, the Commission would give the UN responsibility for seeing that all people would have "an opportunity to earn a fair living". The Commission sees pollution of the global atmosphere and the depletion of ocean fisheries as inadequacies of global governance.
We propose, therefore, that the Trusteeship Council.(U.N.)..be given the mandate of exercising trusteeship over the global commons. Its functions would include the administration of environmental treaties.... It would refer any economic or security issues arising from these matters to the Economic Security Council or the Security Council."
Trusteeship over the global commons provides the basis to levy user fees, taxes and royalties for permits to use the global commons. Global commons are defined to be: "the atmosphere, outer space, the oceans, and the related environment and life-support systems that contribute to the support of human life." This broad definition of the global commons would give the UN authority to deal with environmental matters inside the borders of sovereign states, and on privately owned property.