Transcript Climate Change Policy

Climate Change Policy
Montreal vs. Kyoto
Why did one work and the other has not?
Montreal Protocol (1989)
An international agreement which bans
the production of several substances
which were harmful to the ozone layer
(e.g. CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons and
HCFCs hydrochlorofluorocarbons).
• Ozone layer protects the surface from
much of sun’s harmful UV rays.
• Ratified by all member states of United
Nations
Kyoto Protocol (2005) Doha Amendment (2012)
An agreement to cut the level of
greenhouse gas emissions to a level
which slows global climate change (with
the belief that humans are having an
effect on climate change).
• Canada pulled out in 2012
• Australia at 103% of 1990 level
(meeting its goal)
• Trend of graph?
Montreal vs. Kyoto
Montreal Protocol
"perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has
been the Montreal Protocol“
- past UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
Kyoto Protocol
“The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced
global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of
carbon dioxide per year.”
- Bjorn Lomborg, “Climate Course Correction” Foreign Policy, October 2012