Global warming potential

The Kyoto Protocol is a binding international agreement, which began in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. As of June 2013, there were a total of 192 parties participating in the Kyoto Protocol, Canada was no longer one of them. Canada was one of the first to sign the agreement, in 1998; more than 4 years later, Canada formally approved the Kyoto Accord, in 2002. This meant Canada would have to decrease its emissions, by 6% in comparison to 1990 levels (461 Mt), by the year 2012. Despite some efforts, Canada

The pollutions that are related to carbon cap and trade are the greenhouse and global warming. The steps of understanding what cap and trade means, is by breaking it down into two. “Cap” is a limit that is defined by scientists as the greenhouse gas emissions; companies have to pay a fine if their emissions are produced over that limit

in order to Prevent Climate Change According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) there is a scientific consensus that the earths climate id being affected by human activities. The IPCC 's conclusion is that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. (McCarthy 2001, p.21) . “Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth 's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and

electricity generated from wind power plant. Climate changes are contributed by the equivalent amount of CO2 emissions during each of the phases. The life cycle GHG emission factor is used as an index to evaluate the GHG emission characteristics from a global warming point of view. Honda et al [5] report provides an equation that’s generally used to evaluate the amount of greenhouse gas emitted across the entire life cycle to generate 1 KWh of electricity. The equation used is

correlated to an increase in the average global temperature. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the increase in greenhouse gases collectively over the past two centuries has led to a temperature increase of 0.85◦C [4]. Although some may claim that the effect of the rise of CO2 concentration levels on average temperature is exaggerated, it is generally accepted that increases in atmospheric CO2 lead to higher temperatures. Higher average global temperatures serve as

III. Case of Other Countries (1) The U.S. The U.S. submitted its INDC to achieve an economy-wide target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26%-28% below its 2005 level by 2025. With this plan, the U.S. has several laws related to its environmental policies. Among them, these are main four Acts (Korea Institute of Energy Research [KIER], 2016a): The Energy Policy Act established in 1992 was to secure energy security and revised in 2005 to decrease the reliance on oil and coal energy; The

today is necessary and crucial for the sustainability of the environment. One of the most famous impact of greenhouse gas emission is the sea level increasing. As the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas emissions in 21 century, it leads to the global warming and thus the Earth’s climate has warmed by approximately 0.6 Celsius degree over the past 100 years. Increasing of sea level makes island countries such as Maldives face the problem that the majority of its land area might be underwater by the

lower their emissions. With both China and the U.S putting out their goals, all other countries involved with the new idea of a treaty will have a better idea on how to compromise to lower the emission output and stop contributing as much too global warming. As discussed in class, the amount of time the world has to get it together and put an end to the enormous amounts of emissions being pumped into the atmosphere is thirty years which is considered plenty of time if everyone could agree on a new

Global warming has become one of the most complicated issued facing the whole world. It may cause significant changes in natural, ecological or social systems. Under this circumstance, developed nations has decided to work together to combat this serious problem. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Its objective is to make nations that ratified the agreement reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse

effect it has on the environment. Everyday people are doing actives that are producing greenhouse gas emissions. If one sees their greenhouse gas emission going up, that means that there will be an increase in climate change which will then lead to global warming. Your carbon footprint has a huge effect on not only you but also the environment, human life and wildlife. This is why your carbon foot is important, it has an effect on everything around you. Some people might not know the effects of carbon