The Environment (104)

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  • Created on: 12-05-21 11:17
What is the Anthropocene epoch?
the emergence of human actions as driving forces on a planetary scale
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What did the 1987 Montreal protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer achieve?
Banned CFC's and the ozone layer began repairing itself
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What was the first global conference on the environment?
UN conference on the Human environment, Stockholm 1972
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What did the Brudtland Commission 1987 focus on?
sustainable development
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What did the UN Conference on sustainable development - rio earth summit 2002 result in?
the UN framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity
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What was discussed at the world summit on sustainable development 2002?
African continent but overshadowed by terrorism
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What was achieved at the UN climate change conference, Paris 2015?
195 signed first universal legally binding global climate deal to stop temp rising over 1.5C
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What is the process of securitisation theory?
A securitising actor pronounces something to be a threatened by something else, if the audience agrees then this issue becomes securitised
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