Environment Flashcards
How many countries attended the 1992 Rio conference?
-172 countries
What was agreed when it came Kyoto regarding cutting carbon commissions?
-Developed nation-states agreed that by 2012 would cut carbon emissions by t least 5.2% on 1990 levels.
what did the Copenhagen agreement acknowledge was important?
-Acknowledged was important that ‘deep cuts in carbon emissions are required according to science’
What did the Copenhagen Accord say needed to be included?
-As emerging countries industrialised their carbon emissions would also increase so they needed to be included in the solution for carbon emissions.
Following the Kyoto UNFCCC’s lifetime by what did China’s carbon emissions increase by?
-300%
Who pulled out the Kyoto conference and why?
-Bush took the US out of the conference as it said that the target for the US of 7% was ambitious and unattainable so withdrew in 2001.
What did the Paris Conference recognise?
-Recognised that temperature rise in the twenty-first century must be no more than 2 degrees- nation-states should strive that it be no more than 1.5 degrees.
Following Paris Conference, in 2019 184 states made up what percentage of global carbon emissions?
-88% of world’s carbon emissions
-What are INDCs?
- Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
- Targets set by nations themselves and were meant to be ambiguous
How was Russia criticised when it came to INDCs?
-They made up 7.5% of emissions but had very limited INDCs.
