NATS 1760 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Montreal Protocol, Lesson Learned, Emissions Trading
17 Jun 2017
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History of political responses to anthropogenic climate change, policy on what to do about acc: Architecture: negotiations between lower level diplomats, over time, bring in more powerful people. Eventually heads of state at summits, high pressure ( summits my fail). Magic silver bullet: all pressure on single solution. Lesson learned: international treaties can be used for environmental approaches too. Al gore: senator involved in national security work; applies same treaty approach to environmental concerns. Many of same gov tal negotiators involved, so organizational approach taken from nukes to enviro problems. Thus: treaty to fix ozone hole - banning cfcs montreal protocol. Treaty to fix acid rain caused by suffer dioxide emissions (establish emissions trading) Bottom up: leave up decisions to individual people, business, groups. There is 3 ways to mitigate ghgs (reduce emissions): Emissions trading: are in trouble lately. wall street very keen on this ( making it less trustworthy?) (aka cap and trade), exchanges-on, eu, california, quebec. prices.
