POLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Green Party, The Climate Group, Target Canada
17 Apr 2013
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Multiple problems of environment \-> causes, impacts, perspectives that different groups have on causes and impacts. Diferent kinds of greenhouse emissions (future, past that matters) Climate change probably one of most complex issues because greenhouse gases linked to so many aspects of our lives, different ways of conceiving the product, series of rules to solve the problem. Institutionalism -> all of global issues we looked at, intl community and organizations set up multilateral solutions for climate change. Problem of multilateral cooperation because causes and effects are distributed globally. An issue no govt can handle by itself, causes and effects found differently everywhere. Insitutonalism perspective says you need to use tools of multilateral cooperation to find solution. Key definition of problem of climate change. Cut globallyproblem is deciding on global target, how much globe should cut, how to distribute those cuts, how will it be paid for. What kind of a problem is climate change is.
