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Ensuring Adherence to Environmental Agreements: Implementing the Copenhagen Accord

Addressing the lack of implementation of environmental measures, focus on sustainable methods to reduce climate change, engaging both Developed and Developing Nations, key players like UNFCCC and UNDP, compliance with major agreements like Kyoto Protocol.

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Ensuring Adherence to Environmental Agreements: Implementing the Copenhagen Accord

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  1. Implementing Current environmental agreements and goals i.e. The Copenhagen Accord

  2. The Issue • The lack of implementation and prolonged enforcement of previously agreed upon environmental measures • Sustainable methods to reduce climate change • Lack of compliance or real progress towards environmental goals • Involvement and liability of both Developed and Developing Nations

  3. Major Environmental Agreements • Kyoto Protocol -- Annex 1 Countries to cut, maintain, or raise emissions by assigned percentage of 1990 emissions -- Next compliance evaluation date- 2012 • Copenhagen Accord --Cutting emissions of developed nations --Curbing emissions of developing nations --dedicating US $3billion to cause of aiding developing nations in environmentally friendly development

  4. Compliance

  5. Key Players (NGOs) • UNFCCC- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change • IPCC- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • UNEP- United Nations Environmental Programme • UNDP- United Nations Development Project

  6. Things to Focus On • Plans that require action within previous agreements i.e. Kyoto Protocol • Issue of compliance to monitoring of emissions • Plans of action addressing not only emissions cuts by developed nations, but also environmentally friendly development of developing countries

  7. Sources -http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/74&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en -http://www.ipcc.ch/activities/activities.htm -https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-c.html -http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html -http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/compliance/items/2875.php -http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=404 -http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/ -http://www.unicef.org/supply/index_46238.html -http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/w3613e/w3613e00.HTM -http://www.wfp.org/our-work -http://www.unwater.org/statistics.html -http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx

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