Climate Change
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The document discusses climate change as a social justice issue with environmental causes. It notes that those least responsible will suffer the earliest and most from impacts. Various challenges are presented, including differing national interests in negotiations and advocates who try to delay action. The conclusion emphasizes that we cannot wait to act on climate change given the threats of serious damage and impacts on the poor.
Climate Change
- 1. Oct 2013 Climate Change not an environmental problem, a social justice problem with environmental causes Ilias Bartolini @iliasbartolini
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- 9. Svante Arrhenius Temperature on earth should be -18C !?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius 15
- 11. Greenhouse efect Gas T Water vapor (H2O) + 30 C Carbon dioxide (CO2) + 2/4 C Methane (CH4) + 0.5 C 19
- 17. VULNERABILITY 26
- 18. Less food produced. Some estimate an aggregate fall of at least 10% https://secure.fickr.com/photos/cgiarclimate/9687145368/ 27
- 20. Up to 20 million people in low-lying Bangladesh are at risk from rising sea levels in the coming decades https://secure.fickr.com/photos/aftab/152945444/ 29
- 21. There's no compensation for the disappearance of our country - Tuvalu's UNFCC representative https://secure.fickr.com/photos/oxfamaustralia/8117764040/ 30
- 22. 15% - 37% of 1103 known endemic plant and animal species will be committed to extinction by 2050 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_toad 31
- 23. Disappearance of our natural species is an irreversible event - Golden Toad last seen on May 15, 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_toad 32
- 24. "The impacts of climate change are not evenly distributed - the poorest countries and people will sufer earliest and most" - Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change Pawel Kuczynski 33
- 25. Per capita GHG emissions (excluding land use change) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GHG_per_capita_2000_no_LUC.svg 34
- 26. Per capita CO2 emissions (including land use change) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2_responsibility_1950-2000.svg 35
- 27. Is energy the main the cause? http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/ 36
- 32. We are not equally responsible We are not equally afected http://www.davidrevoy.com/article58/making-of-yin-yang-of-world-hunger 41
- 34. Fossil fuels Do the math 350.org 43
- 35. Fossil fuels Do the math 350.org 44
- 36. Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math 350.org 45
- 37. $0 for dumping greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math 350.org 46
- 38. $0 for dumping greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere ...for the last 100-ish years Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math 350.org 47
- 39. $440,000 for lobbing US congress Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math 350.org 48
- 40. $440,000 for lobbing US congress ...every day! Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math 350.org 49
- 42. World greenhouse gas emissions Worldmapper.org 54
- 43. Climate politics 101 hey! it is more expensive for us you should commit and not cheat on your emissions! Worldmapper.org 55
- 44. Climate politics 101 but you polluted for hundreds of years! now is our turn, we need to develop our country Worldmapper.org 56
- 45. Climate politics 101 and we are an exporting economy... you are the consumer that is benefiting from our emissions! Worldmapper.org 57
- 46. Climate politics 101 you should not be too strict on us ...amazon is the green lung of earth Worldmapper.org 58
- 47. Climate politics 101 hey, keep calm! ...there's an interesting green economy business here Worldmapper.org 59
- 48. Climate politics 101 Don't be too harsh... btw I still have some cheap oil to sell Worldmapper.org 60
- 49. Climate politics 101 Don't be too harsh... btw I still have some cheap oil to sell Me too! Worldmapper.org 61
- 50. Climate politics 101 Don't be too harsh... btw I still have some cheap oil to sell And we got gas! Me too! Worldmapper.org 62
- 51. Climate politics 101 While you keep discussing ...our country is going to disappear under sea Worldmapper.org 63
- 53. Tragedy of the commons "is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons NASA - http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ 65
- 54. So how do they take decisions? 66
- 55. So how do they take decisions? Consensus! https://secure.fickr.com/photos/johnia/2355118699/ 67
- 56. Inaction advocates and skeptics Make the problem uncertain Make it just an environmental problem Make the solution look expensive Tell that "we need an international treaty" as precondition 68
- 60. Shall we... just wait? Adrian Schiegl Fragile Situations 72
- 61. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientifc certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-efective measures to prevent environmental degradation. - Precautionary principle UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Adrian Schiegl Fragile Situations 73
- 62. Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity. It threatens to undo 50 years of our development work and it will impact the poor in the greatest sense. - Ban Ki Moon Secretary-General of the United Nations Adrian Schiegl We will pay back later 77
- 63. "The inescapable challenges of the early 21st century: sustainability and resilience, and the interconnected challenges of energy, water, food and climate" - Sir John Beddigton UK's chief scientifc adviser Adrian Schiegl We will pay back later 78