Combating

Global
Warming
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In 1997, 192 countries signed the Kyoto

Protocol to reduce greenhouse gases, following
the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit a frame
work Convention for climate change was
finalized.

Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement

linked to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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United States is the biggest polluter in the
world.
Developing countries lack the funds to
implement the protocol’s guidelines.
World Bank reported that the protocol only
had a slight impact on reducing global
emissions, in part because of the non-binding
nature of the agreement.
The follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol is
the Paris Accord, negotiated by 195 countries
in December of 2015.
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In South Africa , communities

engage in environmental activism to
pressure industries to reduce
emissions and to lobby parliament
for the passage of pro-environment
laws.
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Universities also partner with governments in producing attainable
programs of controlling pollution.
The University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute sent teams to India
to work with government offices, businesses and communities.
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In, Japan population pressure force the government to work with civil
society groups, academia and political parties to get parliament to pass
“a blizzard of laws- 14 passed at once- in what became known as the
Pollution Diet of 1970.
Japan has some of the least polluted cities in the world.
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