Sealing the Deal to Save the Climate

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Sealing the Deal to Save the Climate
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Chapter 6 Terms

• Ratify
• Make a written agreement official by signing it.
  People usually ratify a treaty/an agreement/a
  decision etc.
• Textbook Most nations-although not the
  historically largest emitter, the united
  states-ratified an international climate
  agreement termed the Kyoto Protocol.
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• Biosphere The global sum of all ecosystems. It
  can also be called the zone of life on Earth.
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone
  Layer It acts as a framework for the
  international efforts to protect the ozone layer.
  However, it does not include legally binding
  reduction goals for the use of CFCs, the main
  chemical agents causing ozone depletion This
  does not include legal framework, the Montreal
  Protocol does.
• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the
  Ozone Layer (Protocol to the Vienna Convention)
  -Is an international treaty designed to protect
  the ozone layer by phasing out the production of
  a number of substances believed to be responsible
  for ozone depletion . The treaty was opened for
  signature on September 16, 1987 and entered into
  force on January 1, 1989 followed by a first
  meeting in Helsinki, May 1989. Since then, it has
  undergone seven revisions, in 1990 (London), 1991
  (Nairobi), 1992 (Copenhagen), 1993 (Bangkok),
  1995 (Vienna), 1997 (Montreal), and 1999
  (Beijing).

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• Joint Implementation Participating countries can
  trade unneeded emission allotments among
  themselves or work together jointly on projects
  that promote cutting emissions in any other
  participating industrial country.
• Emissions Trading Scheme Cap and trade approach
  adopted by the European Union, in which 45 of
  CO2 emissions in the EU are restricted the
  limited emissions are allocated among companies
  and any unused allotments can be traded.
• Bali Action Plan Plan introduced to pick up
  where the Kyoto Protocol leaves off when it
  expires in 2012. The Bali Action Plan did not
  introduce binding commitments to reduce
  greenhouse gas emissions but included the request
  for developed countries to contribute to the
  mitigation of global warming in the context of
  sustainable development. In addition, the Bali
  Action Plan envisaged enhanced actions on
  adaptation, technology development and on the
  provision financial resources, as well as
  measures against deforestation
• Sector Concept Reducing emissions by combining
  companies into specific sectors and pledging
  emissions caps based on those sectors.

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• Kyoto Protocol
• The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement
  linked to the United Nations Framework Convention
  on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto
  Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37
  industrialized countries and the European
  community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
  emissions.

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• Mitigation
• Définitions
• to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief,
  harshness, or pain moderate.
• to make less severe to mitigate a punishment.
• to make (a person, one's state of mind,
  disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle
  mollify appease
• Usage in the chapter
• Mitigation is used in the chapter because the
  main goal is to reduce pollution, make energy
  sources more efficient with less carbon emission,
  and to avoid deforestation.

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• Degradation
• Definitions
• Physical Geography the wearing down of the land
  by the erosive action of water, wind, or ice.
• Chemistry the breakdown of an organic compound.
• Usage in the chapter
• The term degradation is used in the chapter
  because due to the development of
  industrialization deforestation and degradation
  is on rise. The countries are questioning
  themselves if they should allow the reduction in
  soil loss to compete with the reduction of fossil
  fuel emission, but all of the problems stated
  above are relative.

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• Dividends-anything received as a bonus, reward,
  or in addition to or beyond what is expected.
• As the issue of money is united with the concern
  of climate change, people are going to see an
  increase in taxes that go along with trying to
  search out possible solutions to a mounting
  climate problem.
•   Power-to supply with electricity or other means
  of power. To give power to make powerful
• On Page 186 of the book, it says that people
  really dont want carbon based power, per se,
• What they really want is power itself, where it
  is flipping on a light switch, or turning the key
  in a car to make it start.
•   Fairness-In a fair manner, straight directly,
  as in aiming or hitting. Favorably auspiciously.
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• In this chapter, fairness is addressed because
  there are times when the wealthy have not taken
  one the greater commitment to contribute to
  change. Under the Greenhouse Development Rights
  proposal, the worlds wealthier countries and
  individuals would have to finance emissions
  reductions in low-income countries long after the
  emissions in industrial nations bottomed out to
  zero. Will the wealthy ever take on such
  obligations to help save the worlds climate
  problem? It is suggested that if they wont, no
  one else will.
• Fortified-Having increased the effectiveness of.
  Strong, reinforced.
• If wealthier countries learn to help the below
  poverty level countries, and a common
  responsibility is understood as to how we all can
  start to bring permanent changes to the
  environment for the better, the world could turn
  into a planet full of fortified nations.
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