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The greenhouse stakes of globalization
Citation:
Dente, S. AND T. R. HAWKINS. The greenhouse stakes of globalization. Chapter 22, G. Liu (ed.), Greenhouse Gases - Emission, Measurement and Management, ISBN:978-953-51-0323-3 . InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, , p. 485-504, (2012).
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public
Description:
As 2012 approaches, twenty-five years have passed since the Brundtland report defining sustainable development as a progress that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (United Nations). Currently, the fight against Climate change constitutes one of the main features of worldwide policies towards sustainable development. Furthermore, the global climate change issue benefits from an international discussion area through the United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC). This convention was created during the first Earth summit, which was held in Rio in 1992 and benefits from the scientific support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) created in November 1988. The ultimate objective of this convention is to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system (United Nations, 1992). Thus far, the 1997 Kyoto protocol constitutes the main achievement of this convention of which we propose to briefly remind the objectives and analyze the policy patterns in 2.1.
