EESA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clean Development Mechanism, Global Warming Controversy, Kyoto Protocol
17 Feb 2017
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Eesa11: lecture 5 - global climate change (part ii). International agreements and measures to reduce ghg emissions. Massive amounts of information (space, air, earth and sea) are integrated into the model. Successful projects include el nino, the last ice age, cooling effects of the. Differentiating between soot and sulfate aerosols, as they have opposite effects. Not useful for small regions such as states or provinces. United nations framework convention on climate change. 150 agreed to stabilize their greenhouse gas concentrations to what they were in 1990. All countries failed as their was no plan as to how to reduce emissions. Countries agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to at least 5. 2% below 1990 levels between 2008-2012. The u. s. refused to ratify under the bush administration. Disagreed with the fact that less-developed countries had more leniency regarding their reduction of ghg. Canada didn"t sign the protocol but agreed to make differences. The kyoto protocol promoted market-based means of reducing emissions:
