ENGR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Canadian Council Of Professional Engineers, Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse Gas
Document Summary
Maintain a stable environment and temperature is the key to our continued. Co2: plays an important rile in regulating the climate. During human history , global temperature has paralleled atmospheric co2. World co2 emissions are 58% above 1990 levels (kyoto protocol baseline) One target is to stabilize temperature increase to 2 c by the end of the 21st. To stabilize concentrations of co2 at about 450 ppm by 2050: century. Global emissions would have to decline by about 60% by 2050. Greenhouse gas emission of industrialized countries would have to decline by about 80% by about 2050. Engineers are responsible for the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution has spread across the globe. There is a growing set of negative consequences, some local and some global. Thus it stands to reason that engineers are called to play a central role in: Some environmental issues where engineers can help. Develop more economic ways to make products/services and recycle.
