INTL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Hockey Stick, Ahold, Environmentalism
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Hockey stick (the world is going under industrialization and produces pollution and as such is causing global warming) the world can manage a certain amount of pollution no matter what, yet as the population is growing, Proposal - carbon offsets: you can keep polluting but every country has a share of that pollution (if you produce more of your share, you have to buy from somebody else) Don"t have it and trying to get it cheap (get high tech stuff at top levels to developing countries) --> enjoy some of the benefits of this fast paced development: liked by: developing nations. Rio de janeiro: thousands of people got together in rio (going to do the cap & trade, sets targets and intentions. Kyoto protocols: series of instructions (these are the things you need to do, tell each country what it"s supposed to do to fulfill agreement. ***can reduce pollution when they see fit (china and india)
