United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

countries overseas, however, there are some things that big businesses could do to decrease the toll that sweatshops have on the environment. They could begin to build their factories in places that are already urbanized to avoid more unnecessary deforestation. They could bring in healthcare and environmental professionals for seasonal or annual inspections of the people and the environment surrounding them. They could also provide their workers with amenities like clean water at work, and maybe…

Investor interest in the emerging global carbon credit market has created apt conditions for risk management products, ranging from insurance to derivatives. There is a growing recognition of carbon as a commodity that can be traded in spot market, and in the form of other complex financial products, such as derivatives and exchange-traded funds. Currently the carbon credit trade in Asia is dominated by China and India with carbon emissions trading showing the potential to become the world’s…

As children grow up in the United States, they are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which everyone has been exposed to since very young ages. The United States have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into a classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. “SAY NO TO DRUGS!” is a phrase that is mostly embedded in everyone’s head. Advertisements on television and posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different…

Policy Act (NEPA) - Created in 1970, NEPA promotes the enhancement of the environment and established what is known today as the President’s Council On Environmental Policy (CEQ). It was one of the first laws ever written that creates a national framework for protecting our environment. Marine Mammal Protection Act - (1972) The MMPA protects all marine mammals including cetaceans, pinnipeds, and sirenians. The act makes it illegal to take marine mammals out of their habitat without a permit.…

complicated as wildlife often roam large distances and frequently move in and out of parks and protected areas making regulations in, between, and across legal and political boundaries especially difficult . However, there are a number of international conventions and national laws that regulate or provide guidance on trophy hunting. History of Nature Conservation Hunting and conservation communities have long recognized the need to regulate trade…

amount of international credits but once they quit, Canada had to pay a whopping estimated amount of $14 billion in penalties (Pennie, 2011.). Moreover, although Canada is performing bad at its climate change game, Canada spent a total of $1.2 billion to developing countries to help them combat climate change, certainly Canada is way too nice in this aspect (Pennie, 2011). However, the Kyoto Protocol is a tad bit unfair as it doesn’t focus on major emitters like China and India to cut on…

pass influential bills and laws, but he also helped to turn the United States from the isolationism that the country had fell into and promoted earlier in its history. With George H. W. Bush in the White House, there was no laissez faire attitude, because he was not a "hands off" president, instead he made America's power as well as what the country stood for, known to not only his people, but to the world. Since the mid-1940's the United States found itself as a participant in the Cold War,…

The most significant threat to the National interests of the United States are traditional state-based, as no other threat has potential to derail our way of life. With state-based threats being the greatest threat to National security, policymakers must first approach international relations from a realist perspective. China 's moves to potentially reject international law demonstrate that power rules in an anarchic world. Despite this rejection of international law, China has created a…

accountable for global warming. However, as time progressed, these negative effects on the environment have been reduced and continue to be a focus with the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) ultimately paving the way for a “better world” where global trade and economic development continues to boom. The changes that occurred during the Industrial Revolution impacted the lives of the workers and society as a whole. People living a rural…

Finance? Carbon finance is a general term referring to resources provided to obtain greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Recognizing the impacts and threats of global climate change, governments and other entities have met annually at the Conference of the Parties (COP) of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 1995. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997, in which 36 industrialized countries (called the Annex B countries) committed collectively to reduce…