ENV221H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Carbon Footprint, Adaptive Capacity, Neocolonialism
Document Summary
Tragedy of the common with skewed vulnerabilities. Basic rights to be protected from actions of others that threaten life (health),liberty, and personal security. Large share of historical and current global emission of ghg originated in developed countries. Per capita emission in developing countries are still relatively low. Share of global emission originating in developing countrie will grow to meet social and development needs. We have a differential as to how we address it. Remembre in kyoto, countries can transfer their technologies out of the country into annex 2. E. g. geographical distribution of impacts (physical exposure); vulnerability; coping ability; adaptive capacity. Regardless of impacts, developed nations are in a better position. Infrastructures allow them to deal with problems a lot easier t. Freeriding of large emitter (eg. china) responsibility of developing countries towards own. Usaid developing countries should be responsible for their own, not others. Nations have responsibility to reduce ghg within their jurisdiction. Polluters have to bear cost of poisson.
