IR 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Civil Society, United Nations Environment Programme, Carbon Credit
21 Dec 2016
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Under kyoto there were three flexible mechanisms. Ji takes place in economies in transition (former soviet union) Also, redd which was not a part of the paris agreement. So the correct answer was cdm, but everyone is getting +2 for it. One solution suggested is to securitize the environment in order to move it up the agenda. Some call overpopulation the ultimate environmental security issue of our time. Most likely to lead to the demise of civilization, forced degrowth. Malthus"s population theory says we"ll always have slow population growth, we"re like rats who"ve solved our predator and weather problems. Population can grow geometrically, food production can only grow arithmetically. Used as an explanation for the irish potato famine. Though really it was mostly due to a dickish english head of state. Justified it by saying providing aid would just delay the cycle of.
