POLI 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Environmental Organization, Environmental Policy, Hydroelectricity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 449
• Professor: Vincent Pouliot

Document Summary

Sidney ribaux - co-founder and executive director equiterre. 13000 supporters, 16000 members, montreal, quebec, ottawa. The most important environmental organization in quebec. Rio de janeiro in 1992: states met to discuss emerging issues at the time, one of them was climate change and sustainable development. There was hope to sign an environmental agreement through international negotiations. Equiterre was formed while this global meeting was going on in the hope of influencing the negotiations toward an environmental agreement. 1994: the first international conference on climate negotiation is held in berlin. A vision was formed at rio, berlin conference was held to get more specific objectives down, such as reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What was created thru these first meetings that led up to kyoto was a network of ngos. These ngos had significant impact on these negotiations throughout the later years.