ENV222H1 Lecture : March 13 ENV222 lecture format.doc.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV222H1
• Professor: Kenneth Mac Donald

Document Summary

State international multilateral environmental agreements (meas), eg kyoto protocol to the unfccc international governmental organizations (igos), eg unep periodic environmental conferences, eg 1972 stockholm, 1992 rio norms and paradigms such as precautionary principle (p. 356) and sustainable. Geg consists of attempts to co-ordinate the activities of states, even though there is no global government. North, to at least some extent, has been concerned with regional and global environmental problems since 1960s. Facility (p. 357); plus common but differentiated responsibilities re unfccc (p. 362) north had to reduce emissions, south allowed to increase: chronological development of geg. For our purposes in env222, the important dates in the chronology on p. 353 are these: 1962 rachel carson, silent spring; modern environmentalism begins at the domestic level, in the us, then spreads to other countries, then to the international level. 1972 stockholm conference: environment for first time put on un global governance agenda;