Environmental Management

What is Global Warming?Why is Global warming so important?Effect on AgriculturePositive effects of Global Warming?

Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels.

•Burning of fossil fuel for electricity•human agriculture and

industrialization

•Methane •carbon dioxide•Nitrous oxide•hydroflourocarbons

•increasing average temperature of the earth •increasing sea level due to melting of polar ice•modifying the quantity and pattern of rainfall•higher or lower agricultural outputs, glacier melting, lesser summer stream flows, genus extinctions and rise in the ranges of disease•various new diseases have emerged

How to combat Global Warming?

POLITICAL MEASURES

Recycle your E-Waste

Change your Bulbs to CFLs

Prefer to Walk for Short Distances

Drive Smart Cars or Bikes

Book Eco-Friendly Hotels

More usage of Solar Heaters

It is an amendment to the international treaty United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC or FCCC).

Initially adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan and entered into force on 16 February 2005.

As of July 2010, 191 states have signed and ratified the protocol.

37 countries commit themselves to a reduction of four greenhouse gases (GHG) i.e. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride and two groups of gases, hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons.

Objective: Stabilization and reconstruction of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

The Protocol defines three flexibility mechanisms which are:

International Emissions Trading (IET) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Joint Implementation (JI)Financial commitments: developed countries have to

pay billions of dollars, and supply technology to other countries for climate-related studies and projects

Enforcement : If an annex I country is not in compliance with its emissions limitation, then that country is required to make up the difference plus that country will be suspended from making transfers under an emissions trading program.

Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period would end in 2012.

Climate change affects all aspects of individual and social life including health, economics and poverty levels; it is more than a physical phenomenon

Tackling climate change from public sector to private sector.

Perspective needed to deal with climate change: based on different frames-

1) one looks to market solutions 2) looking at technology as the answer 3) of injustice, of unequal distribution of responsibility between the North and South 4) to tackle climate change from causes that have arisen from aspirations to high levels of consumption 5) alarmist-expecting a tipping point Many things are uncertain about global warming. Some

say it will lead to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet; others say it will disrupt the Asian monsoon

Climate change is not all bad; at least it is not so for everyone, everywhereEg. Siberia

 It generates a host of business opportunitiesCarbon trading could create new jobs.Climate change can be used to draw attention

to the gross inequalities that exist in our world.

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