Global Governance: Environmentalism
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- Global governance: Environmental
- The global commons
- Shared global resources and environment e.g. oceans
- The tragedy of the commons
- States are motivates to harm the global commons to advance their national interests.
- States act with realist motivations
- Reducing climate change
- NGOs e.g. WWF, Greenpeace pressure governments
- City administration e..g London Congestion Charge 2003 Ken Livingstone
- International Science Community e.g. IPCC
- National laws and taxes e.f. UK Clean Air Act 1956
- MNCs have Social responsibilty
- Deep and shallow ecology
- Deep = Preserve environment for environment sake
- Rejects anthropocentrism
- Failed to gain popular support
- Shallow = Preserve the environment so humans can benefit from it
- More pragmatic than deep because it is rooted in politics
- Deep = Preserve environment for environment sake
- Scepticism and denial
- Not happening at all
- Happening naturally and not caused by humans
- Question the speed at which the Earth is warming
- Trump in denial
- Realists and Liberals
- UNFCCC
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol
- The Paris Agreement
- Wide membership
- International driving force behind agreements
- Understanding of developed and developing states challenges
- IPCC
- Assessments of the impact and extent of CC
- Causes and risks of CC
- Possible solutions to CC
- Advises governments - no enforcements
- Hundreds of scientists from different countries involved
- Produces regular reports
- Balanced and rigorous advice
- International summits
- The Paris Agreement
- Kyoto Protocol
- The global commons
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