POLA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Path Dependence, Kyoto Protocol, Precautionary Principle
10 Apr 2018
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Different types of people have different ideas of what is fair, this is politics. If absolute emissions are responsible then us and china have to but but that would be different if we judge by capita. This changes the interest in responding to climate change. Global south will feel the consequences of climate change rather than global north. Even though the global north produces the most. E. g. one third of bangladesh is now underwater and bangladesh has virtually contributed to 0% to the emission of ghgs. The scientific reasons for climate change trigger political differences and problems that do not have concrete answers for yet. Telling the story of the international politics of climate change. The problem was initially a scientific problem but it transitioned to a political problem. 1988 we see the transition of climate change into politics due to scientific pressure to make a change. This resulted in the construction of the ipcc (the international panel for climate.
