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In the recent past, the changes in weather and climate have shifted drastically causing meteorologists and other scientists to identify other causes of change. Arguably, aspects such as changes in climate have been attributed with globalization and the use of modern technology that has been welcomed in most countries (Crowley, 2000).
The paper relates to tragedy associated with greed and breeding with justified thoughts on responsibility as presented by the users of natural resources. It should be considered that both individuals and society can recognize the extent of exploitation and choose to change their behavior to the use of the commons thus saving the resources.
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The paper “China’s Renewable Energy Strategy” is a pathetic example of a case study on environmental studies. China has positioned itself as one of the global nations that have embraced the transition to renewable energy in the endeavor to protect the environment. The country cannot sacrifice the environment at the expense of economic growth.
Solutions that are not technical involve looking at the moral perspective of the problem. Hardin is correct in stating that individuals benefit by denying the truth. As seen in deforestation, the stakeholders in the forestry industry only reacted when climate change was evident in the number of yields produced from the fields.
He goes with his son and an eight-year cub named Tom to study ecology and the behaviors of wild animals in the woodland. During their stay in the woodlands, they made a sett so that they could use it for resting at night and they hate earthworms, ants, and squirrels.
China’s economic growth averaging ten percent annually for over a decade has resulted in massive environmental degradation hence negatively affecting public health. Today, China remains the global leading emitter of carbon while the quality of air in Chinese most major cities remains far below international health standards.
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This project recognizes that community participation promotes the aspect of shared responsibility especially when there is the engagement of youth, community members, and stakeholders. To begin with, the project will start by initiating a 3-day skills-building and application of relevant skills that help in the actualization of the design processes.
Increased greenhouse emissions can change the atmosphere balance, and hence consequently the increased climate changes. However, the extent of these changes will be determined by future emissions of greenhouse gases and will vary in various regions. Current trends show that greenhouse gas concentrations may increase the global mean temperature, which is projected to rise by 5.8°C by 2100.
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In the twenty-first century, climate change is a significant concern. The increased emissions of greenhouse gasses have resulted in increased global temperatures. As noted by Sending & Sundberg (2013, p. 1), global temperatures have increased by approximately 0.8 degrees since the early twentieth century.
Eucalyptus leaves have some changing characteristics when exposed to different types of climate (Pinkard, Battaglia, Roxburgh, & O'Grady, 2011). Moreover, exposure of the habitat complexity to the climate makes it change. During the field trip, some eucalyptus leaves were collected and exposed to different attitude levels and rainfall.
To reduce accurately the growing GHG emissions in the freight industry, one has to account for the GHG from regular and express routes both domestically and internationally. The literature presents ways of calculating the emitted GHG by different means of transport including the emission factors of fuels and distanced traveled.
Planning involves evaluating and monitoring a given activity to ensure it is in line with the expected goals to be achieved. To plan and control climate change, there is a need to measure the health effects related to climate change, this gives the formation on how to control and prevent this climate change as a long-term planning activity.
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Marine situations are at present encountering exceptional weights from a scope of normal. Marine chiefs and approach producers are looking for methods for better dealing with the causes and outcomes of the natural change process adrift. Marine zones and particularly seaside situations are exceptionally troublesome spots to oversee.
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Through using express delivery means more than the regular will lead to a positive outcome on handling the GHG emission in the transport industry. For instance, FedEx Express has lowered the costs of using express delivery modes, since they are more profitable and lead to reduced GHG emissions. (FedEX, 2015).
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With the increase in awareness and environmental consciousness, most businesses have been forced to reduce the GHG emission associated with their industries. Many developed countries show a high level of GHG emission than emerging economies and there is continues increase in the GHG emission across the globe.
The impact of transportation on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions has not been fully considered and evaluated to understand how it propels the emissions (Yamin, 2012). Thus, the project will review how different transportation services boost greenhouse gasses while transporting a parcel locally and internationally.
At least 3,000 tons of carbon has been cut from the air and billions of dollars that could have been used in oil importation saved, which is a great success. Besides, the eleven Pacific island countries that participate in the program have set a renewable energy target of 100%, which they hope to achieve in the next few years with the help of the partnership program.
The debate over climate change remains a very popular debate, which attracts diverse opinions from a scientist, idealist, environmentalist, and even political class. The most people article is based on the global warming held in Paris, which according to his article holds people to mad “greenmail.” The article observed here has criticized the outcome of the Paris global warming conference.
Water is an essential element for supporting life. It is also required in supporting economic, social, and environmental objectives through agriculture, conservation, and health as well as sanitation. Nonetheless, the world faces an increased shortage of water resources. It is estimated that only 1% of the earth’s water is fresh.
The feasibility report concerns the technical perspective maturity analyses to show the technical readiness of developing the aircraft through the innovative characteristics. Other factors to consider include the financial and product viability in the market and other environmental sustainability showing the technical readiness.
Some of the benefits that have been pointed out are that they cannot be deleted, they are cheap, and they are readily available, and that they are also friendly to the environment in that they do not cause any type of environmental pollution. With this, much more is expected in the future as it comes to the application of renewable sources of energy. (Gando, 2011)
In the present day, the planet is vastly different from what it was before industrialization and urbanization had taken their toll on the planet. Since the entry of the new millennium, the problem of the environment has continuously evolved into a widespread challenge that is currently discussed all over the world.
Hunting of whales is a traditional practice that dates back several centuries and hence, it forms a significant part of human culture. The Norwegians have been involved in hunting whales for more than 4,000 years while the Japanese have been known to be the most engaged in this practice for longer in human history (Dolin, 2007).
The arguments put forth by Lester Brown are not an overstatement but rather a true reflection of the current global environmental, economic, and demographic challenges. The world is changing at unprecedented levels; countries are now more interdependent than in the past, this has shrunk the world into a global village.
The effects can be felt in the social, economic, and political aspects (Brown, 2014). It is, therefore, prudent for the government to take measures that can be used to stop the causes of these natural hazards so that lives can be saved and the environment and places can be saved from the severe damages that are seen on them.
To sum up, the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia affected 14 nations which are including Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, the Maldives, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Kenya, Somalia, Bangladesh, Seychelles, Madagascar, and Tanzania. Although, the most struck countries of them all were Indonesia and India.
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The changes in the climate are caused by the rise in the level of greenhouse gas; because of human activities, such as - agriculture, deforestation, and burning fossil fuels. There is now a comprehensive belief that global warming of more than 2° Celsius over the pre-industrial state would be harmful and should be averted.
Fossil fuel divestment campaigners have been running global campaigns to see to it that fossil fuel extraction is reduced and another alternative source of energy sought. These campaigners have had their reasons to cite for this move. Several organizations have managed to comply and have minimized their activities related to fossil fuel extractions.
Public opinion is always relevant in shaping the policies and the laws in a given country. Various tools are used by parties with interest to change public opinion regarding climate change. One such tool in the modern world is by using media that has a lot of influence on the views of the people hence changing policies.
Everyone agrees with the fact that all organizations have a responsibility that looks at environmental sustainability but the dynamics of global capitalism prohibits them from achieving it. The prime reason for organizations not being able to achieve sustainability is that global capitalism and external factors result in changes in business effectiveness.
Nevertheless, this has come at the expense of China’s environment and public health to an extent that the country’s environmental crisis has become the taking point. This paper seeks to highlight the environmental concerns that affect China as an industrialized nation and how the Chinese government deals with the menace so as to avoid extreme effects of the same.
Many waterborne diseases are reported, hence, adding up to the lack of community development as more revenue is spent on providing health services instead of supplying water in the urban regions. Climate change contributes to the water crisis in that it regulates the amount of precipitation received in the adversely affected areas, causing a lack of enough water to run daily activities.
Conclusively, the innovations that are being developed to better human lives have a negative impact on all the three categories of resources, that is living resources like the destruction of plants and animals, non-living like mineral depletion and finally land resources like during site creation (Solow, 2014).
Over the past few years, there is heightened debate on the rapidly changing environment (Heede, 2014). In the recent past, the human way of life has also changed and is now characterized by a wide range of improved facilities which affect the environment. The resulting environmental changes have been wide and diverse.
The paper is important since it focuses on current climate issues such as vulnerability, adaptation to the change in climate, and resilience. Adaptation to climate change is receiving much attention as there is a rise in the net emission of greenhouse gases. There is the provision of alternative complementary responses to the climate change issues.
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As such, many countries have adopted the necessary infrastructure for regulating environmental uses and enacted policies and laws that dictate how to use sustainable natural resources. It can be surmised that even though Brazil faces challenges in environmental protection, such as inadequate funding, it has put in place various measures that will aid in protecting the environment.
The forest cover of Kenya stands at only 2%. The other issue affecting the country is the threat to its wildlife heritage caused by the encroachment of man into the wildlife reserves as well as the poaching of the wild animals either for food or for precious items such as ivory, skin, and teeth that are sold in the international black market.
Climate change is undeniably a contemporary issue of the 21st century. The costs and implications of global warming will be unevenly distributed, serious, and large unless moderated mitigation and adaptation techniques are employed, particularly towards curtailing the emission of greenhouse gases.
However, the practices that are exuded by Swancorp’s warehouse in Melbourne do not seem compliant with some of these regulations hence an assessment of its waste management. This report is a projection of the assessment and details the company’s background, the methodologies used in the assessment, and the assessment results.
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The pollution of the groundwater as a result of the way households and industries dispose of solid waste affects the manner in which the groundwater is used. All these issues, the pollution of groundwater by disposal of solid waste and how this affects the usefulness of the groundwater, are addressed in this paper.
It is evident that environmental sustainability marketing is very significant to sustain our environment. One of the strategies used is alternative sources of energy. The various alternative sources of energy that could be used include ocean, hydrogen, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric, wind, and solar energy.
Mining and all its related activities have been linked to various environmental effects. This is even though mining has been able to bring about significant developments such as infrastructure and the development of industries. Additionally, it has been able to lead to a higher standard of living among individuals who are working in the mining business.
The Republic of South Sudan is the youngest country in the world. The country has faced many challenges since it gained independence from the Republic of Sudan. The tribal and civil wars that arose soon after the country’s independence have worsened the health status of the country, which had already been afflicted by adverse climatic changes.
Several factors contribute to change in climate in Libya, and they include the emission of greenhouse gases, variation in the energy of the sun reaching the earth, changes in the earth's surface and atmospheric reflectivity, methane and nitrous oxide emission, and waste depositing practices. It is projected that there will be a rise in temperature, sea level, and water scarcity in Libya in the future.
Alternatively, the reduction of whaling activities can be a short time solution to these problems whereby a limit of the maximum number of whales to be hunted annually is set that. For the achievement of these alternatives, society should work together in ensuring that all the nations uphold these conditions and values.
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The growing human population stretches the environmental capacity to fulfill their daily needs. This daily need comes in the form of food, shelter, and good life. The current resource base and the state cannot provide enough for the current population hence science and technology are employed to increase food production (Maser and Polio, 1995).
From the result, it was indicated that most likely use of public kerbside would increase recycling rates among overseas students. This information gathered in this study is quite fundamental and would support the manufacturing firms, the government, and households to focus on various strategies that encourage waste recycling and reduce landfills.
Evidence indicates that the rapid growth of population, alongside an array of other factors, are key drivers of deforestation. Small frontier families, who live on the forest edge, are the major drivers of global deforestation via cutting down trees to clear land for food production and settlement (FAO, 2010).
The company aims to avoid or minimize its impacts to contribute to lasting environmental benefits to all the regions that it operates in. However, changes in water availability, as well as the severity of events like tropical storms and flooding, are expected to affect the production of major minerals in some countries.
Cyclone Yasi of 2011-this cyclone in the north of Queensland started as a level three cyclone but advanced to a level five with time, the QFES did a good job evacuating people from the coastal region prior to the disaster but damage to property could not be prevented, Insurance claims were estimated at $650 million.