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Global Warming
Global Warming
Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earths average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels .
industrialization
Methane
carbon dioxide Nitrous oxide hydroflourocarbons
earth increasing sea level due to melting of polar ice modifying the quantity and pattern of rainfall higher or lower agricultural outputs, glacier melting, lesser summer stream flows, genus extinctions and rise in the ranges of disease various new diseases have emerged
POLITICAL MEASURES
Set Limits On GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION
Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC or FCCC). Initially adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan and entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of July 2010, 191 states have signed and ratified the protocol. 37 countries commit themselves to a reduction of four greenhouse gases (GHG) i.e. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride and two groups of gases, hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons. Objective: Stabilization and reconstruction of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
International Emissions Trading (IET) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Joint Implementation (JI) Financial commitments: developed countries have to pay billions of dollars, and supply technology to other countries for climate-related studies and projects Enforcement : If an annex I country is not in compliance with its emissions limitation, then that country is required to make up the difference plus that country will be suspended from making transfers under an emissions trading program. Kyoto Protocols first commitment period would end in 2012.
social life including health, economics and poverty levels; it is more than a physical phenomenon Tackling climate change from public sector to private sector.
frames1) one looks to market solutions 2) looking at technology as the answer 3) of injustice, of unequal distribution of responsibility between the North and South 4) to tackle climate change from causes that have arisen from aspirations to high levels of consumption 5) alarmist-expecting a tipping point
Many things are uncertain about global warming. Some say it will lead to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet; others say it will disrupt the Asian monsoon
everyone, everywhere Eg. Siberia It generates a host of business opportunities Carbon trading could create new jobs. Climate change can be used to draw attention to the gross inequalities that exist in our world.
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