POL208Y1 Chapter Notes -World Politics, David Alan Stevenson, Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set

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Global temperatures are increasing from around 3. 5 and 8 degrees (fahrenheit) which will result in melting of glaciers/polar icecaps, rising ocean levels, and affect weather stability. Human activities have caused an approximate of 40000 species to be extinct and currently experiencing 20% of tropical rainforest to be cleared for agriculture or logged. Convention for the protection of ozone layer (1985) was formed followed by the. Montreal protocol (1989) which aimed to completely eliminate cfc"s into the atmosphere. Transnational advocacy networks (tans) represent and take steps towards environmental concerns: consists of hundreds of environmental organizations and individual activists, ultimate goal to make everyone more environmentally aware and expand knowledge on the current issues that exist. Simply being aware of the severity of environmental degradation is not enough > countries must take powerful actions. The lack of improvement can be explained through certain actors that lose from policies made to better the environment. Complicated to organize a large number of states.

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