This document discusses global warming and the Kyoto Protocol. It provides background on global warming, noting that it is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities like burning fossil fuels. It lists some of the main greenhouse gases and effects of global warming, such as rising temperatures, sea levels, and impacts on agriculture. The document then summarizes the Kyoto Protocol, including that it aims to reduce emissions of four greenhouse gases. It established mechanisms for emissions trading, clean development, and joint implementation. While climate change poses risks, it also creates some opportunities, and addressing it draws attention to inequality issues. The document stresses that climate change affects all aspects of life.

1. Environmental Management

2. What is Global Warming?
Why is Global warming so important?
Effect on Agriculture
Positive effects of Global Warming?

3. Global warming is the
unusually rapid
increase in Earth’s
average surface
temperature over the
past century primarily
due to the greenhouse
gases released by
people burning fossil
fuels.

4. •Burning of fossil fuel for electricity
•human agriculture and
industrialization

5. •Methane
•carbon dioxide
•Nitrous oxide
•hydroflourocarbons

7. •increasing average temperature of the 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

8. How to combat Global
Warming?

9. POLITICAL MEASURES

10.  Recycle your E-Waste
 Change your Bulbs to CFLs
 Prefer to Walk for Short Distances
 Drive Smart Cars or Bikes
 Book Eco-Friendly Hotels
 More usage of Solar Heaters

11.  It is an amendment to the international treaty United Nations
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.

12.  The Protocol defines three flexibility mechanisms which are:
 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 Protocol’s first commitment period would end in 2012.

14. Climate change affects all aspects of individual and
social life including health, economics and poverty
levels; it is more than a physical phenomenon
Tackling climate change from public sector to private
sector.

15.  Perspective needed to deal with climate change: based on different
frames-
1) 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

16. Climate change is not all bad; at least it is not so for
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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