United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

“The climate change is likely to greatly increase the rate of species extinction. The most comprehensive study to date has estimated that a global average warming (Urban 2015) of 2°C (compared to pre-industrial levels) could risk the loss of about 5% of the world’s…

A Performance Assessment of the Kyoto Protocol Introduction The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was designed to address the global emissions of greenhouse gasses. Effective in 2005, it provided legally binding targets for countries which varied depending on the level of development of the country as well as contained certain measures for collaboration between countries for trading credits. Evidently, to successfully reduce…

world struggled to keep up with old methods. For America, the Industrial Revolution lasted from 1820-1870 and established the basis for manufacturing in today’s world. Countries in Asia like China and India seemed to have missed this onslaught of changes which left these countries behind for them to develop in later years. This said, China and India are considered developing countries meaning they’re still experiencing their industrial revolution and are catching up to developed countries.…

3. The concept of climate change in SEA of tourism Tourism which is not properly planned and managed can leave permanent footprints on the physical, social, cultural and economic environments of tourism destinations and becomes one of the essential Carbon Dioxide reduction sector for combating global warming and consequent climate change (Ceballous, 1996; Glasson et al. 1995; Dwyer & Edwards, 2009; Wende et al, 2012). The institutional mechanisms of Environmental assessments of tourism are…

Climate Change is one of the latest global debates, and with every debate there are two sides—The affirmative, those who believe that Climate Change is happening and/or Humans are causing the change, and the negating, who believe that Climate Change isn't happening and/or Humans aren't causing the change. To fully understand the debate, and form an opinion on the issue, understanding the science used by both sides and how this supports their argument is key. tHE sCEINCE OF Climate Change,…

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity in the 21st century. As global patterns of temperature, rainfall and weather events change, the delicate balance of climate and life on earth is disrupted. The imbalance in climatic patterns poses serious threats to human health, biodiversity, human livelihoods, global economy, water resources and agriculture. Developing countries especially in Africa are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than countries in the developed…

Although it wasn’t until fairly recently that humans have been severely impacted by climate change, the issue was been present for over a hundred years. The first scientist to conclude that burning fossil fuels in the quantity at which we were doing so would eventually result in elevated mean annual global temperature was Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 (Enzler, 2014). In the early 1900s, other scientists believed that the Earth was experiencing global cooling trends until Stephen…

this correlation holds true, the increasing populous and perceived development will release more GHG’s, further contributing to climate change. Climate change, in turn, will add more pressure to an already strained natural resource supply. Climate change refers to a historically natural process of warming and cooling cycles on the Earth, which is…

and its climate. It is known that Trump thinks of global warming as a Chinese conspiracy, and that he has put Myron Ebell at the head of the EPA. Myron Ebell is known to also not believe that global warming is caused by human activity. These happenings have caused the United Nations to worry for the future of the Paris Agreement, which the U.S. is a part of. Trump has mentioned not only leaving the Paris Agreement, but also stepping up coil, oil, and gas industries- increasing the United States’…

Climate change has become a worldwide controversial topic in the world. There have been many debates and many arguments among scientists, politicians, climatologists, and more about this topic. Most people, including myself, is that humans are causing the climate to change and it is going to negatively affect us in the future due to increase levels of carbon dioxide. While skeptics believe that humans are not the cause, the main cause is natural variability. The climate is changing because of…