Climate_France_HumanInducedClimate

Policy Paper

Committee: Climate Topic: Human Induced Climate Change Country: France Moira Cleary Per. 3

BACKGROUND OF TOPIC

Although there are still many people and countries who do not believe it, the truth is that the climate is changing due to human industrialization over the course of one hundred and fifty years. It is a huge threat and if it goes unfixed or unnoticed for much longer, global warming will certainly harm everything on earth. It makes an unhealthy climate around all organisms, and torments with our safety on the planet. Human induced climate change is brought on mainly by greenhouse gases, which is emitted into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels. Global warming is causing many problems, such as melting the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, bringing on much harsher and harmful weather, and increasing the temperature of the earth.

UN INVOLVEMENT:

For as long as human induced climate change has been recognized as a problem, it has been a hot topic in the United Nations and is never very far from delegate’s thoughts. The UN has been stressing the importance of solving the problem mainly with trying to create a worldwide environmental policy. The UN adopted the United Nations’ International Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 to even further help solve the problems, and in 1997, they adopted the Kyoto Protocol to solve human induced climate change on a global scale, and so far it has been very successful.

COUNTRY POLICY

France highly believes that human induced climate change is the reason why global warming is such a problem. If we look at scientific studies and hypothesis, it is very evident that the climate change has a strong correlation with human activity. The easiest connection to see is that the carbon emissions started rising to an unbearable point after we created machines and started industrializing. There is no other possible explanation, and we, as a duty to our planet earth, should work to make it right again. France has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and we have already made some advancement to meet our quota.

SOLUTIONS:

France is a heavy believer in the Kyoto Protocol, and we believe that it has highly helped human induced climate change so far. We propose that if sanctions are placed on those countries that refuse to do their part and ratify the Kyoto Protocol, we can get them to do it and then, once they are legally bound, we can take closer steps to fixing this huge problem. Another solution we propose is to educate people about the facts of global warming, which will undoubtedly help make the next generation a very climate aware one. Another solution we propose is to make laws within a country that limits a household’s spending on things like heat, so that no one will unintentionally contribute to global warming.

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