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Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Global warming is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels. If unchecked, global warming may lead to sea level rise, more extreme weather events, food shortages, and mass extinctions of plant and animal species. Efforts to reduce global warming include reducing greenhouse gas emissions through transitioning to renewable energy sources and increasing energy efficiency, as well as carbon sequestration technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Governments can implement policies such as carbon taxes to reduce emissions.
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This document discusses the relationship between globalization, international trade, and environmental protection. It summarizes two landmark trade disputes from the 1990s - the Tuna-Dolphin case and the Shrimp-Turtle case - that highlighted tensions between free trade and environmental regulations. In both cases, WTO dispute panels ruled against US environmental laws, prioritizing free trade. The document examines ongoing debates around balancing economic growth, trade liberalization, and sustainability. It also surveys major global environmental issues and international efforts to address problems like biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change.
Key Debates in Environmental Governance
This series of blog has been prepared by the author (Shahadat Hossain Shaki) for the partial
fulfilment of his master’s program course ―Key Debates in Environmental Governance‖, which has been supervised by Prof. Dr. Maria Kaika.
Blog Link: http://environmentalgovernance.wordpress.com/author/shshakil/
Author can be contacted for further query and suggestions at : shshakil.buet@gmail.com
Eng 1012
This document summarizes the key events and documents related to the development of international environmental governance:
- The Stockholm Declaration (1972) was the first international document to recognize the human right to a healthy environment and call on countries to cooperate to address environmental issues for the survival of humanity.
- The Brundtland Commission (1980s) linked economic growth and environmental preservation, recognizing the need to generate growth without harming the environment.
- The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992) brought together world leaders to reconcile economic development with environmental protection and resulted in agreements like Agenda 21.
Global warming
The document discusses global warming, defining it as the increase of temperature of the earth. It lists the main causes as increasing greenhouse gases from smoke from old cars, industrial waste, and cutting down trees. The risks of global warming include damage to the ozone layer, increased temperatures, and melting of the poles. To prevent global warming, the document recommends reducing car use and pollution as well as limiting greenhouse gases and tree cutting. However, the document concludes that while global warming may not be able to be stopped, it can be reduced through human efforts to minimize our environmental impact.
ENV 107 - Lecture 4
1) The lecture will cover the Facebook page link for the class, details about an upcoming quiz exam, Garrett Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons, the Precautionary Principle, and a video of President Obama's 2014 UN Climate Summit Speech.
2) Garrett Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons refers to how individuals acting in their own self-interest can deplete shared limited resources. Examples include overuse of public land and pollution. Solutions involve restricting access and creating incentives for responsible use.
3) The Precautionary Principle is a response to uncertainty about risks to health or the environment. It advocates taking action to avoid potential harm when scientific certainty about risks is lacking.
Realism as both hurdle and panacea in addressing climate change
Several efforts have been employed by states to curb climate change – efforts such as the Kyoto Protocol, but so far, emissions are actually increasing and if climate change is real, it is coming to get the earth.
This paper would like to argue that in the current international regime, in which realism dominates, solving climate change is not easy if not impossible unless realism itself is expanded to include climate change as a security issue.
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Assignment 1: Social Impact of Population Growth
The United Nations has hired you to be a consultant on global issues. One of the challenges is assessing the impact of population growth. There is no question that the world population will grow dramatically in the next decade throughout many countries of the world. The members of the UN are working to understand the impact that population growth has on society, specifically in developing countries. Your first project with the UN is to develop a whitepaper on three issues related to the population growth faced by one of these countries. Read the Case Study and provide an assessment based on the questions below.
(For a brief list of resources for this assignment, please see the end of the course guide.)
II.
Overview
Our
obsession with continual economic growth deters us from studying the role that an expanding population plays in global warming.
[1]
About 3 billion years ago, the Earth suffered through a mass extinction caused by catastrophic volcanic activity in Siberia and wildfires that covered the entire planet. Since then, four more extinctions have eradicated up to 80% of all species each time. The world’s climatologists and scientists overwhelmingly agree that we are now on the verge of a sixth mass event that, over the next few tens of thousands of years, will wipe out nearly all living species on Earth — including mankind.
This is not the stuff of science fiction or speculation, but rather the studied view of the people who are most qualified to make this kind of assessment. As anthropologist Richard Leaky, author of
The Sixth Extinction
,[2] wrote in 1995, “
Homo sapiens
might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.”
This brings us to two issues worthy of reflection:
Does the rate at which people are reproducing need to be controlled to save the environment?
To what extent does human population growth impact global warming... and what can be done about it?[3]
The answer to the first is quite simply “yes,” but the solution to the second is more problematic. The damage humans are doing to their climate is ruining the atmosphere surrounding their planet. At the rate this damage is increasing, at some point in the future there will be no atmosphere left to protect life on Earth from the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. Compared to other planets in our solar system, Earth has mild temperatures, thanks largely to the protective gases of its atmosphere.
However, since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (around 1775), those gases have become stuck in the atmosphere, causing heat radiating from the sun to reflect back to Earth (rather than exiting to space). The result is that oceans have become warmer and glaciers are melting, including parts of Antarctica. If we think of that continent as the stopper in a bottle, its melting away will release all the water it is holding back. This will raise sea levels to uncontrollable lev.
Climate Change 4
The document discusses the United Nations' involvement in addressing carbon emissions and global warming. Specifically:
1. The UN Environmental Programme aims to build green economies powered by clean energy, equip communities with resilience against climate impacts, and sustainably manage forests as carbon sinks.
2. While the UN strives for these goals, many countries take a more practical approach and issues exist with concepts like carbon credits. Carbon taxes could negatively impact car-producing countries or indebted countries with high-emitting industries like space flight.
3. The document provides scenarios about how carbon credit taxes might specifically impact different types of countries.
Assignment 1 Social Impact of Population Growth.docx
Assignment 1: Social Impact of Population Growth
The United Nations has hired you to be a consultant on global issues. One of the
challenges is assessing the impact of population growth. There is no question that the
world population will grow dramatically in the next decade throughout many countries
of the world. The members of the UN are working to understand the impact that
population growth has on society, specifically in developing countries. Your first project
with the UN is to develop a whitepaper on three issues related to the population growth
faced by one of these countries. Read the Case Study and provide an assessment
based on the questions below.
(For a brief list of resources for this assignment, please see the end of the course guide.)
Overview
Our obsession with continual economic growth deters us from studying the role that
an expanding population plays in global warming.[1]
About 3 billion years ago, the Earth suffered through a mass extinction caused by
catastrophic volcanic activity in Siberia and wildfires that covered the entire planet.
Since then, four more extinctions have eradicated up to 80% of all species each time.
The world’s climatologists and scientists overwhelmingly agree that we are now on the
verge of a sixth mass event that, over the next few tens of thousands of years, will
wipe out nearly all living species on Earth — including humankind.
This is not the stuff of science fiction or speculation, but rather the studied view of the
people who are most qualified to make this kind of assessment. As anthropologist
Richard Leaky, author of The Sixth Extinction,[2] wrote in 1995, “Homo sapiens might
not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.”
This brings us to two issues worthy of reflection:
Does the rate at which people are reproducing need to be controlled to save the
environment?
To what extent does human population growth impact global warming... and what
can be done about it?[3]
The answer to the first is quite simply “yes,” but the solution to the second is more
problematic. The damage humans are doing to their climate is ruining the atmosphere
surrounding their planet. At the rate this damage is increasing, at some point in the
future there will be no atmosphere left to protect life on Earth from the sun’s ultraviolet
radiation. Compared to other planets in our solar system, Earth has mild temperatures,
thanks largely to the protective gases of its atmosphere.
However, since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (around 1775), those gases have become stuck in the atmosphere, causing heat radiating from the sun to reflect back to Earth (rather than exiting to space). The result is that oceans have become warmer and glaciers are melting, including parts of Antarctica. If we think of that continent as the stopper in a bottle, its melting away will release all the water it is holding back. This will raise sea levels to uncontrollable.
World environmental day
Green Watch conducted a successful debate on World Environmental Day to discuss various environmental issues like global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and carbon footprints. The debate was attended by representatives from NGOs, students, environmental consultants, and civil society organizations. Increasing dependency on fossil fuels and carbon emissions were major concerns addressed. The group advocated for energy independence through renewable resources like solar energy. Green Watch also launched a free online journal called "Green Watch" to increase environmental awareness among people, especially children and youth.
Using Learning Processes to Promote Change for SD final
This document discusses promoting change for sustainable development. It begins by reviewing the challenge of sustainable development and how current responses are inadequate. It then maps contextual factors that limit change, including individual subjective factors like emotions and perceptions of agency, and collective objective factors like economic and technological lock-in. The document proposes a model for change with three necessary conditions: awareness, agency (the ability to find a meaningful response), and association with others. Action and reflection is identified as a key process for developing these conditions and engaging with contextual factors to promote change for sustainable development.
CEI Email 5.6.03 (b)
This document summarizes a letter sent by 33 conservative public policy groups to Representative Henry Hyde opposing language in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's State Department authorization bill relating to climate change. The groups argue the Senate findings contain exaggerations and reliance on discredited sources. If adopted, the resolutions would recommend adopting Kyoto-style policies to limit energy use and negotiate further emissions limits, which the groups oppose as enormously costly without significant environmental benefits. The letter urges the House committee not to follow the Senate's approach.
Brundtland report
The document is a report from the World Commission on Environment and Development that outlines their findings and recommendations. It begins with an introduction from the Chairman describing the urgent need for coordinated global action on environmental issues. The report then covers topics like population growth, food security, energy use, urban development, and conflict prevention. It calls for institutional and legal reforms to promote sustainable development and a renewed spirit of international cooperation to address the serious environmental challenges facing humanity.
Brundtland report
The document is a report from the World Commission on Environment and Development that outlines their findings and recommendations. It begins with an introduction from the Chairman discussing the urgent need for coordinated global action on environmental issues. It then provides a table of contents that outlines the various sections of the report, which cover topics like population, food security, energy, urban development, and proposals for institutional and legal reforms to promote sustainable development. The overall report calls for higher global cooperation and ambitious political action to address common environmental challenges and work towards a sustainable future.
Global Essay Topics
Global Environmental Problems
The World As A Global World
Global Problems Essay
Global Warming Essay
Climate Change : A Global Issue
Essay on Going Global Presentation
Global Issues Of The 21st Century Essay
Global Environmental Issues Of The World
Annotated Bibliography On Global Warming
Renewable Energy And The Global Warming
Synthesis Essay On Global Warming
Global Politics Essay
Global Media
Global Societies
Essay Global Integration
A Truly Global World Essay
The Global Economy Essay
Global Warming Persuasive Papers
Global Sustainability
RACE reading material series - Global Warming
This brief write-up was supplied to the students and participants before they joined the discussion event on 09-April-2011 in Vivekananda Library, Suri.
Mariwan hama saeed international approaches against global warming
This document discusses international approaches to addressing global warming. It outlines agreements made at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, Kyoto in 1997, and COP21 in Paris in 2015 to establish frameworks and commitments around reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. The conclusions emphasize that while agreements are important, real action and solutions will require global cooperation to respect the planet and work towards a healthy environment for future generations.
Our common future
This document is the introduction to the report "Our Common Future" published by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. It provides background on the establishment of the commission by the UN General Assembly to propose long-term environmental strategies and ways to improve international cooperation on sustainable development issues. The chairman, Gro Harlem Brundtland, discusses the ambitious mandate and diverse international commission assembled to address urgent global challenges through an interdisciplinary and integrated approach. Key issues examined included links between poverty, population, environment and development.
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