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Agenda
Introduction
Global warming
Kyoto protocol
Global trading system
Indian scenario
Benefits and disadvantage of carbon trading
Industrialization
Power and wealth of the country strongly depends
on industrialization.
Every country tries to become industrialized.
Total
7 Liquid fuel
6 Solid fuel
Gas fuel
5
4
3
2
1
0
1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
Year
The atmosphere now holds 30% more
carbon than a century ago.
Future Carbon Dioxide
Levels
Increasing CO2 emissions, especially in China
and developing countries
methane (CH4)
hydrofluoro-carbons (HFCs)
1979
2000
Precipitation changes
Droughts and famine (some areas)
Expanded arable land in Canada, Soviet Union
The Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Thank you
More Important Data
• The Kyoto Protocol
will result in only
modest emission
reductions
– The US has not yet
ratified this treaty
• We already have
technologies that
can help us on the
way
– Efficiency
– Renewable Energy
– Coal-gasification with
carbon sequestration
• The behavioral
challenges are
much more
daunting than the
technological ones.
• Climate change
isn’t likely to affect
our generation.
• We need to make
changes for
subsequent
generations.
Mitigation of Global
•
Warming
Conservation
– Reduce energy needs
Recycling