Lecture 7: Climate change impacts and mitigation

Question 1

great big gap over africa

Answer 1

don’t know really whats going on

need centres in the middle of africa

Question 2

attribution

Answer 2

1990s - couldn’t say if anthropengenic drivers- causing them

Question 3

emissions

Answer 3

asias- increasing the most

economies collapse- good for emissions- ussr 2008 financial crash

sector- energy usage- going up- methane- farming bog- marshes- permafrost - actually a big problem

Question 4

decarbonising the economy

Answer 4

4 things to consider

1 size of pop

2GDp per capita

3Energy intensity of GDP

4Carbon intensity of energy

increase in gdp-more energy density

Question 5

diff aprroaches- climate change act

Answer 5

2008

law

not funding renewable energy

Question 6

diff approaches- climate change governance

Answer 6

2 degree target- highly political
 tackle climate change
reduce emissions
what do we do post kyoto
paris- success- copenhagen failure

Question 7

intended nationally determined contributions

Answer 7

get green house gases down

look at global temp rise

Question 8

carbon capture/storage

Answer 8

produce the carbon- instead of emitting- suck them back in

Question 9

polycentric governance

Answer 9

many actors on many levels contributing to solutions

negative- weak may have lost strength

more centralised governments

Question 10

changing behaviour

Answer 10

discount the future- ethics our rights more important than theirs

want something cheap fast and something right now

individual may not see that they can make a change

lack of education - link to boy off mass media

Question 11

theory of planned behaviour

Answer 11

attitude toward the behaviour

intention

perceived behavioural control

Question 12

types of renewable energy

Answer 12

solar wind geothermal bioenergy hydropower

no deploying more widely- change in norms- norms being the system

not in my back yard- rural don’t want them

non profitable for companies - less economies of scale- price of oil has gone down

Question 13

neweables and energy sovereignty

Answer 13

north african solar- can power all of europe

don’t want to rely on na- bad trek record

england wind energy- should output this

Question 14

Reading Boykoff and Boykoff- 2004

Answer 14

June 11 2001- bush spent 18 billion on climate research

us prestige press- contributed- in significant ways to failed discursive translations regarding global warming- denial discourse- a voluble minority- argues gw- not scientifically provable- not a serious issue

individual journalists must content with political economic norms

surface level exploration