Why Global Warming Is Different and Harder Than Previous Environmental Problems
Global Environmental Problems
description
Transcript of Global Environmental Problems
![Page 1: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 11
Global EnvironmentalGlobal EnvironmentalProblemsProblems
![Page 2: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 22
International Environmental Politics• Environmental policy is about what government does and does not do to address environmental problems• Environmental politics is the clash of values & interests that occurs in the course of formulating and implementing policy• What does this suggest about international environmental politics and policy?
![Page 3: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 33
“Third Generation” Issues•Global in Scale•Long-term in Scope•Significant Scientific Uncertainty•Large Economic Stakes•Complex Institutional Management
![Page 4: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 44
Global Environmental Problems•Climate Change•Ozone Depletion•Biodiversity Loss•Ocean Exhaustion
![Page 5: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 55
WHY NOT IMPOSE INTERNATIONALENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS?•Sovereignty•No Supra-National Authority
– U.N.– World Court
![Page 6: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 66
Ozone, CFCs, and Montreal• Why was it possible to construct an international• regime to respond to Ozone Depletion
– Immediate scope and tangibility of the problem– Small set of CFC producers
• Industry interested in product change– Relatively Low Cost to Industry
• No net economic impact on states– Developed-Developing states rift healed by funding
![Page 7: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 77
Global Climate Fluctuations
![Page 8: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 88
Kyoto Treaty• Treaty Text• GHG Emissions Reductions
– 1990 target year– Industrial Countries = 5% reduction from 1990
• emissions levels by 2012• US = 7%• European Union = 8%• Japan = 6%• Emissions trading allowed
– Industrializing Countries = voluntary reductions
![Page 9: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 99
US GHG “Problem”•90% of US GHG emissions = fossil fuel combustion•US reduction strategy must involve
– Energy efficiency/conservation– Removing subsides from fossil fuel extraction/production
•(~ $100 billion/year)– Develop alternative energy sources
![Page 10: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 1010
Policy Problem•Convincing the government there is a problem•Devising an effective course of action•Getting other governments to do likewise
![Page 11: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 1111
Bush CO2 PlanCO
2 M
T pe
r $
mill
ion
Year
![Page 12: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 1212
Bush CO2 PlanCO
2 M
T pe
r $
mill
ion
Year
![Page 13: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 1313
Bush CO2 Plan
Year
CO2
MT
Emis
sion
s
![Page 14: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 1414
Biodiversity Loss•Continental-Scale Ecosystem Destruction
– Human Population Growth– Economic Development
•Mining, forestry, agriculture•Ebola virus killing off African primates
•Climate Change
![Page 15: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 1515
Biodiversity Loss•Consumptive Use•Bio-Homogenization
– Economic Globalization– Alien Invasions
•Fungus decimating amphibian populations•West Nile Virus decimating bird populations
– Plus dozens of other species•Sudden Oak Death Syndrome•Wooly Adelgid
![Page 16: Global Environmental Problems](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081520/56815d82550346895dcb8f69/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
17.32 Environmental Politics17.32 Environmental Politics 1616
Ocean Exhaustion• Consumption
– Collapsing Fish Populations– “collateral damage
• Leatherback turtles• Pollution
– Eutrophication• Dying Coral reefs
– Toxins, Viruses, Bacteria• Sea otter decline
• Habitat destruction– Bottom trawling– Coastal wetlands