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Climate Change
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Our Planet is in constant flux,
lessoning our impact is vital.
• Great or small human activity has an impact
on our planet, from plastic to air pollution.
• From Kyoto Protocols to Paris Accords the
United Nations has been useless in stemming
the tide of pollution by the worst polluters.
• Reshaping the energy markets and meeting
the needs of the people for clean energy will
be done from the bottom up, not the top
down.
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UN Framework to
Kyoto a failure of
Bureaucracy
Image credit Kyoto_Protocol_Parties (2019)
Green: Annex B parties with binding targets in the second period
Purple: Annex B parties with binding targets in the first period
but not the second
Blue: Non-Annex B parties without binding targets
Yellow: Annex B parties with binding targets in the first period
but which withdrew from the Protocol
Orange: Signatories to the Protocol that have not ratified
Red: Other UN member states and observers that are not party to
the Protocol
• United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992
was formed stating their commitment to
reducing greenhouse gases.
• Leading to broad outlines of emission
targets in 1997 in which only a handful of
countries had binding targets and actually
ratified the agreement.
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Kyoto Protocol
Extensions
2005 to 2020
2012-2020 Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol
Green: states that ratified
Grey: Kyoto parties that did not ratify
White: Non-parties to Kyoto
A full seven years in 2004 Russia and
Canada ratify Kyoto Protocols
bringing them into effect in 2005.
In 2011 Canada announces it’s
withdraw from the treaty. Effectively
ending the agreement.
It took a total of 19 years to get even a
handful of countries to agree to
slightly binding terms to reduce their
pollution emissions.
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Parris Accord (2015)
The Paris Accord is a nonbinding
agreement between industrial and
nonindustrial nations that would
seek to limit Greenhouse gases and
pollution as a way to hold off Global
Warming or now Climate Change.
But As Greshko of National
Geographic pointed out in 2017
“existing pledges under the Paris
Agreement won't curb warming to
two degrees Celsius above
preindustrial levels, a new UN
report warns.
Global CO2 emission by jurisdiction
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And the problems further escalate when
China and India’s pledges are examined
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According to Jackson of the Guardian
• “Both China and India have committed to emissions targets under the Paris
agreement. China has committed to lower the carbon intensity of its economy by 60 to 65%
below 2005 levels by 2030. India committed to reduce the emissions intensity of its economy by
33-35% below 2005 level over the same period. “
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China India
Greatest Polluters
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USA declines while pulling out of Paris Accords
while nonbinding signatures increase emissions
• While China and India are the world
leaders in increasing their pollution and
have no way to decrease their emissions
back to pre-2005 levels without destroying
their economies by 2030.
• This is the major flaw of the Paris Accords
and all top down solutions to our
pollution problems.
• The United Nations lets the greatest
polluters on the planet continue polluting
at unsustainable levels.
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China Increases
Pollution Dramatically
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China is even increasing its fossil fuel output
dramatically already years into the Paris
Accord
Yu from the epochtimes points out
• “China is building hundreds of
new coal-fired power plants
capable of generating a total of
259 gigawatts (GW) of
electricity—that’s equal to the
entire existing U.S. coal fleet of
around 266 GW, findings by
advocacy and research group
CoalSwarm show.”
9. Image Credit Shushmi Times of India (2019)
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The Worst Polluters
are Nonbinding
Paris Accord
Signatures
50% of total global pollution deaths
come from India and China
India and China registered over 1.2
million deaths from air pollution in
2017.
In India, air pollution ranks higher
than smoking for cause of death.
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Bureaucracy Will
Not Solve Pollution
Problems
United Nations is a failure at
enforcing any kind of standard on
nations that are the worst polluters.
Solutions will come from passionate
people around the world creating
new technologies.
And local people demanding change
around them to reduce the pollution
from the worst polluters.
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Editor's Notes
The future of climate change rest on the shoulders of our younger generations and the impact that social media has on us all.
As conducted by students at the University of Exeter, they have established the distribution of attitudes across interaction networks of Twitter users communicating about climate change. Twitter is among the top medias used for discussions. (Hywel T.P. Williams, 2015)
Badlands National Park used Twitter to get a message directed at Trumps Administration across, which resulted in them stating “He’s going to meet with his team and figure out what policies are best for the environment.” (Capatides, 2017)
In 2015 it was established through the multiple government agencies that the emissions would decrease in the coming years. However, in the U.S. alone emissions were projected to grow by about 2.5 percent in 2018. This confirms that the climate action pledged by nations is “inadequate to bridge the emissions gap”. (Harvey, 2018)
The range in users of social medias varies, however it is shown that the younger generations tend to use more. With just this knowledge, reaching the younger generations, such as Generation Z, will effect the impact that social media continues to grow with.
This year students across the world have protested climate change demanding action be taken. The government focused on the issue of the students missing school rather than the bigger message they were trying to convey.
“Soon these schoolchildren will be old enough to vote, and public officials will have to answer to a highly-motivated bloc for what they did or didn’t do to address a foundational problem for the next generation.” (Irfan, 2019)
Teaching students the importance of their voice, when it comes time for them to be at the age of voting they will take control over the results. What is to stop them from accomplishing more?
The age of relying on the government to accomplish the planets need is over, everyone starting with children are taking a stand to protect the Earth. The conversations through social media’s, schools and the impact those students will have in the future is endless.
