POL-UA 700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Per Capita Income
19 Jan 2017
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Leaders like re-election: promising sacrifice is easy. Demanding the same by poor countries is an excuse. United nations" framework convention on climate change: kyoto: as of late 2009, beat their emissions obligations: greece, germany, england, and sweden, on target: czech republic, slovak republic, poland, hungary, bulgaria, and. Romania: far behind their target or increasing rather than decreasing emissions: canada, Italy, denmark, spain, the netherlands, ireland, switzerland, scotland, norway (which committed to holding down only the growth in their emissions to 1%), Finland, austria, japan: do you notice a pattern in these groups, among the big failures are many of the world"s leading greenhouse gas emitters. A couple of big successes are also leading emitters but even their success must be viewed cautiously. The assessment of how these countries performed is based on emissions as of late 2009 when the world was deep in its worst economic recession since the great.
