Climate change continues to be a serious problem facing the international community, and efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions require global cooperation. As it stands, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change spearheads the international community 's efforts to tackle climate change by establishing an international climate change regime, but the UNFCCC is not without its critics. Meanwhile, the US-China Climate Change Agreement suggests the potential for bilateral or mini-lateral forums to deal with climate change. If you were tasked with reforming the current climate change regime, what revisions would you make to increase its effectiveness?
It has been almost 25 years since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …show more content…
and efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions require global cooperation.
Todd Stern — the US Climate Change envoy — has expressed the challenges with the UNFCCC process as follows, “Climate change is not a conventional environmental issue...It implicates virtually every aspect of a state 's economy, so it makes countries nervous about growth and development. This is an economic issue every bit as it is an environmental …show more content…
The threat of climate change is the most evident manifestation of how interconnected the international community is. What is done, or not done within one state will ultimately affect the rest of us sharing this one planet, for example, the relationship between China, and Bhutan. They are both members of the United Nations and parties invested on the UNFCCC, both lie at the opposite end on the list of the global greenhouse gas emitter. China is an economic giant that contributes the most greenhouse gas of any country, about 25 percent of global emissions. And Bhutan, who is an isolated Buddhist kingdom, has an overall zero net greenhouse gas emissions and a negative carbon emission. Bhutan shares its borders with China, but it is not only a border that is shares with China. For Bhutan, even by setting the benchmark on tackling climate change and having a negative carbon emission, it still shares many environmental challenges due to climate change. The greenhouse gas that is emitted by both its giant neighbors, China and India, offsets everything Bhutan does to mitigate climate change locally and
It has been almost 25 years since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …show more content…
and efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions require global cooperation.
Todd Stern — the US Climate Change envoy — has expressed the challenges with the UNFCCC process as follows, “Climate change is not a conventional environmental issue...It implicates virtually every aspect of a state 's economy, so it makes countries nervous about growth and development. This is an economic issue every bit as it is an environmental …show more content…
The threat of climate change is the most evident manifestation of how interconnected the international community is. What is done, or not done within one state will ultimately affect the rest of us sharing this one planet, for example, the relationship between China, and Bhutan. They are both members of the United Nations and parties invested on the UNFCCC, both lie at the opposite end on the list of the global greenhouse gas emitter. China is an economic giant that contributes the most greenhouse gas of any country, about 25 percent of global emissions. And Bhutan, who is an isolated Buddhist kingdom, has an overall zero net greenhouse gas emissions and a negative carbon emission. Bhutan shares its borders with China, but it is not only a border that is shares with China. For Bhutan, even by setting the benchmark on tackling climate change and having a negative carbon emission, it still shares many environmental challenges due to climate change. The greenhouse gas that is emitted by both its giant neighbors, China and India, offsets everything Bhutan does to mitigate climate change locally and