POLI 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2Degrees, Carbon Tax
23 Jan 2018
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Guest lecture: ribaux / quiterre: quiterre = most influential pro-environment ngo, what do they do, 1. Influencing public policy (maybe i can educate the public and do protests so that the govt listens: projects, 1. Run a network of 120 organic farmers; consumer: organic good for cheap, farmers: assured market, environment: less pesticides. Act as the meeting agency between farmers and consumers: 2. Educational: events for people to try electro-controlled vehicles. Do it with a network of electric controlled vehicle owners: 3. Influence governments to enforce stricter regulations against pesticides: 4. On this: we have surpassed 400ppm which is outside the scope of many scientists which is the rate of change, the second issue is that the rate of change is happening in a shortened time span. From copenhagen to paris: solutions became economically feasible and technologically available, wind electrical production going up.
