POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-8 : Kyoto Protocol, Wallace And Gromit, Stern Review
5 Sep 2018
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Recognition is growing of the shortcomings of the kyoto protocol. There is a slim window of opportunity to implement a more productive approach. Conventional wisdom currently framing the opening assumptions for indonesian summit holds that the successor to kyoto must somehow be much more stringent and more inclusive. Fresh global agreement should aim to be more demanding still. Downs cycle (explains alarm to euphoria): pre-publicity, alarmed discovery, euphoric reaction, counting costs, and quiescence. Second phase; political shaping of the kyoto protocol, many people had doubts because constituencies were concerned climate change in west focused on other problems. 2006-2007: climate change was at the top of national agenda because bush"s response to hurricane katrina and al gore"s an inconvenient truth. If the aim was to effect real material change in human impact upon the atmosphere, kyoto might have achieved three things. Make any meaningful practical progress at all towards mitigation of anthropogenic ghg emissions.
