NGOs have started to address this

  • 1971 UN Conference on Human Envrionemnt in Stockholm
  • GEF - UN + World bank
    • biodiversity
    • climate change
    • international waters
    • ozone
    • land degradation
    • organic pollutants

Biodiversity

  • UNCED approved UNEP with 168 countries
  • balance between needs of periphery and desires of core

Ozone

  • ozone layer in stratosphere protets of UV
  • 300 Dobson -> 200 DU between 1960 and 85
  • caused by CFC in household materials
  • Vienna Convention ofr the Protection of Ozone Layeri n 1985
  • Montreal Protocol in 1987 to phase out CFC

Global Climate Change

Bruh this is too overly complicated

US can only have 24% of CO2 emissions. US and China didn’t sign Kyoto Protocol.