| Environmental reforms on climate change have been | | | | set strategies on how to meet the requirements of |
| discussed for decades by the UN, separate countries | | | | this strategy, many nations have been reluctant to |
| governments, environmental groups, and individuals. | | | | join in the UN efforts and have created |
| The need for change is evident, but getting a national | | | | environmental reforms of their own. |
| response, much less an international response, is | | | | Clean Energy Revolution Strategy by Separate |
| difficult to see through. | | | | National Governments |
| The United Nations Framework Convention on | | | | * Individual countries will take their own actions in |
| Climate Change was created almost 20 years ago. | | | | reducing an impactful climate change. * The pros for |
| This framework aimed to stabilize atmospheric | | | | this argument center on the power that national |
| greenhouse gas concentrations below a dangerous | | | | governments have in where spending goes in their |
| level. What this dangerous level is, however, has | | | | own countries. Increase the spend and support of |
| been a topic of debate. Last year's Copenhagen | | | | research and green reforms as well as put caps on |
| Climate Conference tried to turn the UN's framework | | | | greenhouse admissions that make sense per country |
| into a reality, but failed to do so. The simple | | | | and (in this theory) you will see results. * The |
| drawback in this environmental reform was the | | | | assumptions of this strategy assume that the actions |
| unrealistic goals it set with no precedent or way of | | | | of individual nations will eventually make green energy |
| implanting without a country going bankrupt or losing | | | | less expensive than today's fossil fuels quickly enough |
| power. | | | | to positively effect and limit the changes to the |
| The Copenhagen negotiations (UN backed) | | | | climate. This represents what economists call a |
| attempted to strap down 200 nations committing | | | | collective action problem, meaning "successful |
| themselves to drastically change green reforms. This | | | | solutions require many different parties to respond in |
| UN decision has not yet been implemented due to | | | | a coordinated manner" which is highly unlikely to |
| the holes in the program and the non-urgent threat | | | | occur. |
| of climate change. | | | | Combine National Efforts with UN Watchdog |
| The following are the different environmental reform | | | | * National governments (driven by environmental |
| strategies that different environmentalism specialists | | | | factors as well as economic) will pursue their own |
| have hypothesized, as well as the plan created by | | | | ways of lowering emissions and greenhouse gases. * |
| the UN. | | | | Global negotiations would watch separate nations and |
| Global Agreement Strategy from the UN Copenhagen | | | | keep certain countries from lagging too far behind by |
| Conference | | | | supporting early results and creating circumstances in |
| * Assumes national governments can set a | | | | which countries who are not implementing |
| meaningful threshold beyond the point where climate | | | | environmental reforms would suffer economically. |
| change can become dangerous, and then create a | | | | The next round of climate negotiations is going to be |
| plan that assures never getting to that point. | | | | in Mexico in December. Hopefully, with the |
| However, environmentalism specialists cannot find | | | | aforementioned plans in mind, this meeting will help |
| any such threshold. * If a threshold was found, this | | | | create international reporting standards for monitoring |
| would mean cutting off all greenhouse gases from | | | | greenhouse gases, as well as other international |
| fossil fuels, which no country has ever been able to | | | | standards for climate control. |
| do and still stay profitable. * Because there are no | | | | |