EES 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lake Pontchartrain, Kyoto Protocol, Environmental Policy
22 Jan 2018
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Questions for today: the experimental method and policy evolution, montreal protocol, kyoto protocol. Montreal protocol: classic example how science ultimately gets related to environmental policy. 1976, national academy of sciences donated research money. International agreement signed in 1987 and took effective in 1989: 15 years after the first discovery of something good was not happening. Chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) & hydrochlorofluorocarbons (hcfcs): don"t need to know the chemistry yet. Figure 17. 25: ozone hole forming over the arctic and was expanding. Risk to human and animal life increased ultraviolet radiation, damaging to the eyes more and more cases. Most successful international environmental agreement in modern history. Side note on how the kyoto protocol came about: beginning of the 50"s, starting measuring carbon. As co2 goes up the planet gets warmer, and you are starting to change the environment. In 1992, united nations conference recognized that carbon dioxide (co2) was increasing in the atmosphere and creating problems.
