PLCY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Green Climate Fund
October 25, 2016
Notes
How Climate Change Makes The World More Violent
● Civil wars more likely to occur during periods of hotter temperature
○ Higher temperatures affect crop yields
○ Lower agricultural outputs, more likely to inspire young men to raise up in arms
because of lack of economic opportunities
○ Migratio of failies → political urest
○ Farmhand to fighters argument
● Warmer climate promoted violence
● Heat drives violence by turning farmers into fighters
African Voters Indicate Lack of Support for Climate Change Policies
● UN Green Climate Fund initiative to fund Africa $10 billion per year to support climate
adaptation and migration policies by 2020
● Not everyone in Africa supports climate change policies
● African democracies characterized by high levels of corruption, low levels of political
stability, and poor political performance
● Office holding tends to be a way for people to become wealthy
● Political driven corruption biggest problem to climate change progress
● Poor Africas → rather use oey to help deelopet/ecooic status rather tha
climate change
○ Ca’t see log ter → short ter
● Malawian member of Parliament - people of Malai do’t ko hat cliate chage is
● Malawi least likely place where climate change policy least beneficial
● Voters did’t reard politicias, ad ay hae puished the, for istitutig cliate
change reform
● Climate change policies may decrease party support
● Climate change may be low on list of policy priorities for voters
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Document Summary
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