International and National Climate Change Policies By Danni Treanor and Jenny Bryce.

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International and National Climate Change Policies By Danni Treanor and Jenny Bryce

Transcript of International and National Climate Change Policies By Danni Treanor and Jenny Bryce.

International and National Climate Change Policies

By Danni Treanor and Jenny Bryce

Kyoto Protocol

Silly monkey man

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BADSilly dopey man

Japan 1997

Random Japanese things

Hehe

EnforcementCountries are

required to make up the difference plus an additional 30%

Support for Kyoto

Carbon dioxide is heating up the earth

Opposition to Kyoto

Arguments that Kyoto does little to “curb” global warming

Major countries opposed to Kyoto

Because their emissions were so bad in 1990, the former Soviet Union has little reducing to do Japan already

had low emissions in 1990 so has a difficult task

Per capita emission targets could be a better measure

National policy

Labour played a big role in the Kyoto agreement

The Government cleaned up beaches

Cleaner vehicles

Increased recycling

The End

Beavis, S. and Barrie, C. (1998) Sustainable Future Business and Industry

Castree, N. (2001) “Tackling Global Warming” Geography Review Volume 14 Number 4

Wikipedia [Online] Accessible from: www.wikipedia.org Labour (2006) “Labour:The Future for Britain” [Online]

Accessible from: www.labour.org.uk