How Should Global Society Address Climate Change? - The Kyoto Protocol and Its Future
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This research paper explores how global society should address climate change, focusing on the Kyoto Protocol and its future. In the introduction, the paper presents three challenges that we face in addressing climate change; uncertainty, trade-off between environment and economy, and political conflict. The paper tries to work out how to address climate change with these three challenges in mind. Disciplines Environmental Sciences Comments Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Environmental Studies 2006. This thesis or dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/mes_capstones/9 Master of Environmental Studies Capstone Project How Should Global Society Address Climate Change? -The Kyoto Protocol and Its Future-
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تاریخ انتشار 2014