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Agenda 21
This is not Bart
June 1992 Rio de
Janeiro
Over 160 countries
Reducing impact of industry
Appropriate handling of chemical and toxic wastes Agenda 21
logo
Kyoto Protocol
Silly monkey man
Good…ish
BADSilly dopey man
Japan 1997
Random Japanese things
Hehe
Carbon Credits
CO2 limit
Exceed
Buy carbon credits
Don’t exceed
Sell carbon credits
Pay fine
Pay to reduce emissions
In own country
In other countries
ARGH! Climate change!
Anthropogenic
interference
“Common but differentiated responsibilities”
Developed countries must reduce emissions
Developing countries are
exempt
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