United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

At the global level, the three frameworks of Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and Sustainable Development Goals support related policies, legal and regulatory framework development and reform. Further, the three frameworks call for integrating decentralized related actions into local development. For example, encourage participation, monitoring and mediation are best undertaken at the local level, integration advocacy, awareness and education, and establish new partnerships…

Adoption of the Paris Agreement at the 21st annual Conference of the Parties (COP21) has brought new attention to the detrimental effects of climate on communities all around the world. For the first time in history, all 196 countries committed to addressing global climate change. Building off of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the aim of the Paris Agreement primary is to “hold the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue…

In order to understand the effects that Global Climate Change has had on weather we need to first understand the difference between weather and climate. Weather is what is happening in the atmosphere, on a given day and location. Examples of such include temperature, wind, and precipitation. On the other hand, climate is more of a broad, generalized condition that covers a region during a longer period of time. Examples of such include warm, cold, wet and dry. In the past decade, with only a…

Climate change is one of the biggest problems facing humanity. It is “a long term change in the earth’s climate, especially a change due to an increase in atmospheric temperature” (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/climate-change) and is one of the greatest threats to our planet. (www.123helpeme.com). so, what causes climate change? Climate change is a consequence of the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. As these fuels combust, Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse…

the EPA to limit climate pollution through the Clean Air Act, however, President Bush and his EPA disavowed its obligation to address climate pollution. They stated how “dangerous climate pollutions emitted into the air … didn’t qualify as ‘air pollutant[s]’” (Levitan). In 2007, the Supreme Court rejected the EPA’s claim, ruling that “carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases qualified as air pollutants” (Levitan). From then on, it was the EPA’s responsibility to address climate pollution in the…

Bottom-Up approach allows for more potential to accomplish and accommodate to policies regarding climate change. Working better than the reverse side of top-down approach as it is becoming to vague and isn’t able to be as efficient as it was originally made. Policies under this category tend not to be able to adapt to the new technologies. One of the benefits to Bottom-Up process is the ability to adapt and change its policies more efficiently under a smaller scale of government. With this…

attenuate global warming. The treaty extends the 1992 United Nation Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCC). The protocol was adopted in 1992 but only came into place in February 2005. It was designed as a response to the continuous growing international concerns regarding human activities interference with climate. In fact, reducing the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. International cooperation is…

the rise of global climatic change. The actions that have been done recently in overcoming the emission of CFC however cannot ensure the full recovery of the ozone layer due to the past emission which still continue to the thinning of the ozone layer. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has received more than 150 states participant in 1992, with focusing on reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide. Other than that, the Kyoto Protocol…

I read the article about climate change and I have to agree with the points and concerns the article states about average surface temperatures, unpredictable climate and severe weather affecting our health, agriculture, and more. Carbon dioxide, emissions and deforestation, reforestation, urbanization, desertification, etc. are affecting our climate. The combination of these things have a negative effect on the atmosphere and there is little evidence to support the idea that the human race could…

The UNFCCC Conference in 2015 must enforce climate change policy, but it also needs to be unique. Unique in the fact that it represents each of the member states plans and takes notes of their individual needs. Without some individualization of this new protocol, the entirety of the document will most likely fail due to too much restraint on a varying dynamic of cultures, economies, and social organization. Coming to a consensus about climate change will take compromise of the upmost complexity…