Lecture 9: Global policies for reducing GHG emissions

Question 1

Paris Climate Accords COP21 GOALS

Answer 1

• Paris 2015
• keep temp increases well below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels
• scale up global efforts to limit temp increases below 1.5 degrees C

Question 2

Paris climate accord (PCA) how many countries agreed

Answer 2

• 195 countries agreed

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Question 3

COP24 Poland 2018 GOAL & outcome

Answer 3

• how to acc implement Paris accord
• TRUMP kicked off and US pulled out
• Russia hasn’t ratified it
• Rumours brazil might pull out
• (signed by representative, ratified by government)

Question 4

Trump and COP24

Answer 4

• Doesnt agree w global warming –> TWEETS

- he still should comply but isn’t

Question 5

Concerns for US pulling out of COP24

Answer 5

other countries may also pull out, but quite the opposite

• • others trying a lil more
• • Leonardo DiCaprio activist
• USCA formation

Question 6

USCA

Answer 6

• formed in US
• 22 states signed up
• policies that advance the goals of the Paris Agreement –> reduce ghg emissions by at least 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025
• take and report progress
• accelerate new & existing policies to reduce carbon pollution & promote clean energy

Question 7

Green New Deal

Answer 7

using public funds to create research, development & jobs in the renewable energy sector & reduce carbon emissions
- laughed at by a lot of people in the US

Question 8

Global New pledges

Answer 8

• UK ban diesel cars in the UK by 2025
• FRANCE: ban all petrol & diesel cars by 2040
• ARGENTINA:Carbon tax on fossil fuels
• $100billion in a climate fund for developing countries
  & MORE

Question 9

optimism of climate change =

Answer 9

• theres a lot of research on it

- public backing (protests)

Question 10

Why we not doing more? What is the problem?

Answer 10

• MONEY:
• -economic crash
• • capitalism
• • oil revenues
• • new sus tech is expensive

PUBLIC OPINION:

• • climate scepticism
• -apathy
• • nimbyism (“not in my back yard”)

Question 11

climate scepticism =

Answer 11

• % of people who believe climate change is real…
• and belief depends on experience (individuals more likely to accept global change in temp if they see data in graph rather than text)
• varies around the world (more people in island countries believe)

Question 12

scientific responsibility:

Answer 12

• scientists are traditionally reticent - publish research and allow people to view it

Question 13

James Hansen

Answer 13

‘Climate Change Yoda’

• told congress in 1988 about GLOBAL WARMING
• Now 74, has been arrested in the US 8 times for protesting

Question 14

How do we make people care?

Answer 14

ATTACH TO EMOTIONAL LINKS

• Food security
• pollution
• biodiversity loss
• climate migration
• energy security
• waste & recycling
• personal experiences i.e. hurricanes, wildfires