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1st Quarter Asean Hotspot Density Map

Orientation

What is Environmental Politics?

- How environmental issue are framed,

governed and solved
- Framed
o How are environmental issues
defined?
o What makes an issue an
environmental one?
o How does it affect us?
- Governed
- Countries affected:
o How are environmental issue
o Indonesia
handled by various
o Malaysia
stakeholders?
o Singapore
- Solved
o Brunei
o Why do stakeholders pursue a
o Thailand
certain course of action? How
o Cambodia
effective are current solutions?
o Vietnam
What is your role?
o Philippines
What does “Global” Mean? - Dry Fire are common here because of
o Natural
- Scope ▪ Peatland
o Local o Human
o National ▪ Deforestation and Burn
o Global
- Interconnectedness SDG Connection
o Environmental problems
- SDG 11 – Sustainable cities and
doesn’t respect borders
communities
o Require cooperative and
- SDG 12 – Responsible consumption and
multilateral solutions
production
- SDG 13 – Climate Action
- SDG 14 – Life Below Water
- SDG 15 – Life on Land

Course Outline:

- Module 1: Planet Earth: An Introduction

- Module2: Global Environmental
Problems
- Module 3: Global Environmental
Governance
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- Module 4: Drivers of Global

Environmental Challenges
Earth Systems
- Module 5: Global Environmental
Responses - Spheres
- Earth as electric generator machine
spheres are its parts
Module 1: Planet Earth: An Introduction o Interconnected
o Better Life sustenance
Planet Earth - Types:
o Atmosphere
- Name: Earth
▪ invisible blanket of
- Also known as “the Blue Marble”
gases
- Age: Approximately 4.5 Billion years
▪ Composition
- Species: Terrestrial planet (rocky, small,
• Nitrogen – 78%
thin atmosphere)
• Oxygen – 21%
- Composition: 71% water, 29% land
• Argon – 0.9 %
- Length of day & year: 24 hours & 365.25
• Others – 0.1%
days
▪ Air Supply
- Rating: 10
o A prime location • Oxygen for
▪ Goldilocks zone respiration
• Habitable zone • Nitrogen as
diluent
• Healthy
▪ Earth Warmer
distance to the
sun • Greenhouse
▪ Axial tilt – obliquity effect
• Seasons, • Greenhouse
climate zones, gases
weather ▪ Skincare: Wrinkle,
patterns sunburn, cancer
▪ Near to Moon and Mars • UV killer
• Research and • Ozone Layer
exploration • Ozone
▪ Hospitable Atmosphere Molecules (O3)
• Oxygen-rich ▪ Montreal Protocol
• Heat-captor • Montreal
• UV-Protector Protocol on
▪ Abundant Amenities to Substances that
support your stay Deplete the
Ozone layer
• Rich in water
• Plant and • The Landmark
multilateral
animal variety
Environmental
• Array of natural
agreement that
wonders
regulated the
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production and • Aquatic

consumption of organisms
nearly 100 ▪ Keeping industries alive
man-made • Agriculture
chemicals, • Fashion
Ozone • Energy
Depleting o Lithosphere
Substances ▪ Earth’s physical outer
(ODS) shell (crush and upper
o Hydrosphere mantle)
▪ Water ▪ Composition
▪ Its all about water • Rocks
(wherever, whatever) • Minerals
▪ Composition: ▪ Our legit home
• Saline • Plains,
(Saltwater) – mountains,
96.5% valleys, ocean
• Freshwater – floors, etc.
3.5% ▪ The Earth’s hardware
o Ice caps (metals, minerals, fossil
and fuels)
Glaciers • Constructure,
– 68.7% electronics,
o Ground transportation,
water – energy
30.1% ▪ Groundbreaking
o Other – (Literally)
0.9% • We live in
(Lakes clashing plates
87%, (Earth’s puzzles)
Swamp • Earthquake,
s 11%, volcanic
Streams activity,
2%) mountain
formation
▪ Freshwater is life (3.5% o Biosphere
is life) ▪ All types of life
• Essential ▪ Where life happens
mineral ▪ Composition:
• Nutrient Everything Everywhere
Absorption All at once
• Hydration • Who: Humans,
▪ Habitat animals, plants,
bacteria, fungi
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• Where: on, ▪ Held at the SEC Centre

above and in Glasgow, Scotland,
below the earth UK
▪ “Where there is life, ▪ Duration: October 31,
there is cooperation” 2021 – November 13,
• Mutualism, 2021
commensalism - What?
• Family and o Natural phenomenon: long-
social bonds term shift in climate patterns
▪ “Where there is life, o Anthropogenic
there is competition” ▪ Chiefly of pollution or
• Human vs environmental change
Human originating in human
• Animal VS activity
Animal o Earth’s personality change
▪ “Where there is life, ▪ (un)derdevelopment
there is passing” - Human Triggers
• Grow, develop, o Greenhouse gas emission
interact - So What?
• Lifespan & o Global warming
Mortality o Rising sea levels
• Ecosystem o Extreme and unpredictable
balance weather

Planetary Boundaries Greenhouse Gases

- 9 processes - Carbon
- Safe operating limits/ thresholds o Source
- Necessary for systems stability ▪ Burning of fossil fuels
o “Healthy Planet, healthy (coal, oil, natural gas)
people” and wood
- Case Example: Tuvalu o Lifespan
o Located in the Pacific Island ▪ thousand years (some)
country (26 𝑘𝑚2) o Global Warming Potential:
o Issue: Rising sea levels ▪ 1
o Risk: similar fate with Atlantis – ▪ Lowest/reference
Lost and Forgotten o Gas Emission Percentage
▪ 79.4%
Climate Change • Total US
Emission in
- COP26
2021
o Also known as the 2021 United
- Methane
Nations Climate Change
o Source
Conference
▪ Production and
o 26th United Nations Climate
transport of fossil fuels
Change conference
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▪ Livestock and • Total US

agricultural practices Emission in
▪ Organic waste decay 2021
o Lifespan
Global Greenhouse Gas Emission by Sector
▪ 12.4 years
o Global Warming Potential
▪ 27-30
o Gas Emission Percentage
▪ 11.4%
• Total US
Emission in
2021
- Nitrous Oxide
o Source
▪ Fertilizer application,
biomass burning, fossil
fuel combustion
o Lifespan - Biggest to Lowest Sector
▪ 121 years o Energy: 73.2%
o Global Warming Potential o Agriculture, Forestry & Land
▪ 285-289 Use: 18.4%
o Gas Emission Percentage o Industry: 5.2%
▪ 6.2% o Waste: 3.2%
• Total US
Emission in
2021 The Top 10 GHG Emitters Contribute over Two-
- Fluorinated Gases Thirds of GE
o Source
▪ Human-made gases
• Ex.
Refrigeration,
AC Systems,
aerosols,
heating systems
and the like
o Lifespan
▪ Few weeks to a
thousand years - Top 1: China
o Global Warming Potential - Top 2: United States
▪ Varies - Top 3: India
▪ Highest is 23,500 - Top 4: EU (27)
o Gas Emission Percentage - Top 5: Russia
▪ 3% - Top 6: Japan
- Top 7: Brazil
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- Top 8: Indonesia
- Top 9: Iran
- Top 10: Canada