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Climate Management - Solving the Problem Part 4

Hệ thống Thornthwaite sử dụng từ năm 1948 kết hợp thêm sự thoát-bốc hơi nước với nhiệt độ và các thông tin về lượng mưa được dùng trong việc nghiên cứu về các loài động vật và tiềm năng tác động của sự biến đổi khí hậu. | Cap and Trade and Other Mitigation Strategies 71 nations were willing to lend developing nations money but were less willing to donate. Hill remarked As far as we re concerned this is the moral equivalent of having someone drive a car into your house and offering you a loan to pay for the damages. If a multilateral policy is going to work all countries must participate because emerging and developing economies are expected to produce 70 percent of global emissions during the next 50 years. In addition any framework that does not include large and fast-growing economies China India Brazil and Russia would be very costly and politically unwise. This chapter has presented several financial and technological strategies to handle the mitigation of global warming. Whichever methods are used will ultimately depend on the region available technology available finances and political policy. What is critical is that action be taken immediately to fight climate change in order to lower the negative consequences of sea-level rise flooding drought disease and other disasters. The International Political Arena Because global warming is a global problem it will take a global solution. It does not matter whether greenhouse gases are released in Los Angeles London Tokyo or Paris they have the same impact on the atmosphere. Thus if only a few countries make an effort to slow emissions it will not solve the global warming problem. All countries must be involved in the solution in order to successfully solve the problem. This chapter looks first at the opinion of one of the world s leading experts on global warming concerning the ramifications of holding off on taking action. Next it presents an overview of how international cooperation eventually evolved and the events that fueled it. The chapter then examines the unique role of international organizations and what they have accomplished and finally focuses on the progress of individual countries and regions. AN EXPERT S WARNING Dr.