Science: Controlling Pollution
ALANDO EDWARDS
FINAL ASSIGNMENT PAPER
SCI207 DEPENDENT OF MAN ON THE ENVIRONMENT
INSTRUCTOR: JENNIFER OTT.
3/6/2011
Controlling Pollution can save our environment from disaster and create healthier environment for humans, animals, plants, and other living things.
The Kyoto Protocol is the agreement to lower greenhouse gases by 5 percent in 50 years and was compared to the level in 1990. Kyoto agreement for Carbon trading from country to country causes to lessen the chance of acid rain and sulfur dioxide levels. With this plan; 126 countries have accepted the Kyoto Protocol except for the US, because according to the government; it’s going to cost them a lot to clean up CO2. Four countries, including the US has not yet accepted Kyoto Protocol because they don’t embrace this act, which causes global business competition will impact several us companies. Researchers have estimated that; by the year 2010, greenhouse emissions market will reach $100 billion dollar. Greenhouse gas emission provides economical reliefs, companies and countries benefit; A lot of environmentalists believe that, it is wrong to pollute and think this tactics of Koto will not work successfully. Carbon trading could lead to more open trade market probably than emission control, which lead me to think; can pollution rights trading effectively control environmental problems?
According to Charles W. Schmidt, “The Market for pollution, Environmental Health perspectives (August 2001), argues that emissions trading schemes represent, “the most significant developments” in the use of economic incentives to motivate corporations to reduce pollution. Many environmentalists, however, continue to oppose the idea of allowing anyone to pay to pollute, either on moral grounds or because they doubt that these tactics will actually achieve the goal of controlling pollution. Diminishment of the acid rain problems often cited as an example of how well emission rights trading can work. The
FINAL ASSIGNMENT PAPER
SCI207 DEPENDENT OF MAN ON THE ENVIRONMENT
INSTRUCTOR: JENNIFER OTT.
3/6/2011
Controlling Pollution can save our environment from disaster and create healthier environment for humans, animals, plants, and other living things.
The Kyoto Protocol is the agreement to lower greenhouse gases by 5 percent in 50 years and was compared to the level in 1990. Kyoto agreement for Carbon trading from country to country causes to lessen the chance of acid rain and sulfur dioxide levels. With this plan; 126 countries have accepted the Kyoto Protocol except for the US, because according to the government; it’s going to cost them a lot to clean up CO2. Four countries, including the US has not yet accepted Kyoto Protocol because they don’t embrace this act, which causes global business competition will impact several us companies. Researchers have estimated that; by the year 2010, greenhouse emissions market will reach $100 billion dollar. Greenhouse gas emission provides economical reliefs, companies and countries benefit; A lot of environmentalists believe that, it is wrong to pollute and think this tactics of Koto will not work successfully. Carbon trading could lead to more open trade market probably than emission control, which lead me to think; can pollution rights trading effectively control environmental problems?
According to Charles W. Schmidt, “The Market for pollution, Environmental Health perspectives (August 2001), argues that emissions trading schemes represent, “the most significant developments” in the use of economic incentives to motivate corporations to reduce pollution. Many environmentalists, however, continue to oppose the idea of allowing anyone to pay to pollute, either on moral grounds or because they doubt that these tactics will actually achieve the goal of controlling pollution. Diminishment of the acid rain problems often cited as an example of how well emission rights trading can work. The
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