What Problems Are Involved with Establishing an International Climate Change Regime
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What Problems are Involved in establishing an International Climate Change Regime? Can They be Overcome?
Aisling O’Hagan 109337270 Word Count: 3,229
What Problems are involved in establishing an international climate change regime? Can they be overcome?
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What Problems are involved in establishing an international climate change regime? Can they be overcome?
Introduction This essay will begin by reviewing the developments the United Nations (U.N) has made with climate change. This will look particularly at the efforts made towards establishing an international climate change regime over the past two decades. This has shown up a number of stumbling blocks that the U.N has faced. This essay will identify these problems and provide suggestions as to how they are caused. To Study the reasons for these problems the essay will study the relationship between science, politics and policy. This will determine if the problems stem from a gap between any of these actors in the development of global policy change. The essay will then transition to consider the actors affected by global environmental policy. This will concentrate specifically on citizens and multi-national corporations. The essay will then conclude by analysing the information gained from these studies to determine if the problems can be overcome, and if so suggestions remedy problems.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change This section of the essay will give a brief background of the work the United Nations has done in working towards a global environmental policy on climate change. Since 1990 it has been recognised that climate change is a major challenge facing the world and collective effort is necessary to limit its effects. There has been a series of negotiations underway to attempt to solve the issue of climate change. The first step towards global cooperation in resolving climate change problems was in June 1992 in Rio De Janeiro at the the UN Conference on
What Problems are Involved in establishing an International Climate Change Regime? Can They be Overcome?
Aisling O’Hagan 109337270 Word Count: 3,229
What Problems are involved in establishing an international climate change regime? Can they be overcome?
1
What Problems are involved in establishing an international climate change regime? Can they be overcome?
Introduction This essay will begin by reviewing the developments the United Nations (U.N) has made with climate change. This will look particularly at the efforts made towards establishing an international climate change regime over the past two decades. This has shown up a number of stumbling blocks that the U.N has faced. This essay will identify these problems and provide suggestions as to how they are caused. To Study the reasons for these problems the essay will study the relationship between science, politics and policy. This will determine if the problems stem from a gap between any of these actors in the development of global policy change. The essay will then transition to consider the actors affected by global environmental policy. This will concentrate specifically on citizens and multi-national corporations. The essay will then conclude by analysing the information gained from these studies to determine if the problems can be overcome, and if so suggestions remedy problems.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change This section of the essay will give a brief background of the work the United Nations has done in working towards a global environmental policy on climate change. Since 1990 it has been recognised that climate change is a major challenge facing the world and collective effort is necessary to limit its effects. There has been a series of negotiations underway to attempt to solve the issue of climate change. The first step towards global cooperation in resolving climate change problems was in June 1992 in Rio De Janeiro at the the UN Conference on
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