POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: The Wrong Trousers, Steve Rayner, Ozone Depletion
18 Jan 2018
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Reading journal 3: the wrong trousers by gwyn prins and steve rayner. The kyoto protocol (1997) failed to tackle anthropogenic climate change and wasted 15 years of time and energy due to its model on inappropriate precedents. It took ideas from past practices, like so2 emission reductions, to produce a model, however other problems were tame and easier to solve than the wicked , more complex to solve, climate change. The focus on ghg emissions reduction made other approaches to climate change a taboo. Emissions targets were distantly related to mitigating and not at all adapting to effects. No common agreement on means and objectives. It focused on output targets, instead of input (renewable energy sources). It was meant to be a counterpart of the montreal protocol; however ozone depletion is more plausible to solve than climate change. 2004 annan high level panel report emphasized the gap between the promises of the.
