GPHY 101 Lecture 4: Week 4: Energy

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

Wallerstein"s core/ periphery thesis and canada as a semi- periphery. Commodity chains: from producer to consumer: chains of production and delivery that run from the producer to the consumer through transportation systems and a series of transformations, global economy as a system of commodity chains. Importance to notice: where value lies, diversity and length of transportation systems. Canada and the kyoto protocol: economy versus the environment. In 1997 canada signed the kyoto protocol (ratified 2002) International agreement to reduce emissions: 37 industrialized countries and the ec agreed to reduce emissions, do not include developing countries, could use carbon trading or clean development, emissions began to count from 2005. Why did canada repudiate the accord: actions like these led to the idle no more movement, oils sands a major source of canadian revenue, by zon it was clear canada would not meet its emission target.