Essays on Climate Justice

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Climate change comprises the interaction of environmental, climatic, technological, political, social, institutional and economic processes. Climate change involves the stabilization of green houses gases. It is inevitable and cannot be dealt with in isolation of societal goals such as equity and sustainable development. Technology and policy instruments should be integrated into equity and sustainable development so as to eliminate climate change. Climate change should be carried out in such a way that food production and economic development are not compromised. It should also allow the ecosystem to adapt naturally. Sustainable development is the capacity of existing generations to fulfill ...

Rationale

The Climate Change has been a hot issue since the end of the 20th Century. After several United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; governments signed a protocol in Kyoto, Japan that marked their commitments in saving the environment. The commitment is popularly known as the Kyoto Protocol. An article (UNFCCC, 2012) explains that the Kyoto Protocol binds the countries to reduce their carbon emissions and penalized violators thereof. Also, it was in this protocol that benchmarked the market-based mechanism on carbon trading that will offset the too much green house gases emission of a certain country.

After almost two decades ...

Dissertation Methodology

RESEARCH STRATEGY

This study was created to 'evaluate the severity of the effects from natural gas flares in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It will utilize both a Quantitative Research model to evaluate the amounts of gas flared, the volume of contaminants released into the environment and the potential value of natural gas wasted. That will be followed by a Qualitative Analysis that uses numerical and statistical process to draw out and make generalizations based upon the information structure created from the Quantitative Research and the data sets provided by the various information sources. These information sources include, but are ...