POG 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Shifting Cultivation, Climate Change Mitigation, Rio Declaration On Environment And Development
27 Jan 2018
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If the climate does not remain constant, we call it climate change: causes: natural processes such as variations in solar radiation and plate tectonics, human activities linked to recent climate change, often referred to as global warming. Effects of global climate change changing precipitation patterns: rising sea levels, changing precipitation patterns, effects on organisms. Adaptation: rising sea levels and coastal populations, move inland, adapt to shifting agricultural zones. If so, what do they need to do: what about non-state actors such as transnational corporations. Cbdr is an expression of general principles of equity in international law: emerged at the 1992 conference as a compromise between the positions of developed and developing countries about environmental protection. It recognizes the historical correlation between higher levels of development and a greater contribution to the degradation of global environmental resources such as water and air and enables the sharing of responsibility accordingly.
