ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Who measured the gas emissions from the active Kilauea volcano in Hawaii and concluded that the volcano has been releasing more than twice the amount of SO2 as the single dirtiest power plant on the US mainland


  US Geological Survey
• They declared Riyadh as one of the most polluted cities in the world 


  World Health Organization
• It is the "human contribution" that has become an immediate cause of worry
• 7th most polluted city in the world 


  Gaborone, capital of Botswana
• Blamed the pollution for "contributing to more than half a million premature deaths each years at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars." 


  An archived article in the journal Scientific American
• Blamed air pollution for 223,000 lung cancer deaths in 2010 


  International Agency for Research on Cancer
• They observed that "the greater the concentration of Hispanics, Asians, African-Americans, and poor residents in an area, the more likely that dangerous compounds they breathe."


  Yale University research team
• Who concluded that the unhealthy environment deepens poverty, increases vulnerability of both the poor and non-poor in the slums, and excludes slum poor from growth?

  Marife Ballesteros
• The necessities that the poor has access to are also the sources of the problem
• The worst polluter in the history of the world- responsible for 27% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions

  The United States
• The result of billion of tons of carbon dioxide, various air pollutants, and other gases accumulating in the atmosphere


  Global warming
• It is responsible for recurring heat waves and long droughts and heavier rainfall and devastating hurricanes and typhoons 


  Greenhouse effect
• The follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated by 195 countries in December 2015


  Paris Accord
• It seeks to limit the increase in global average temperature based on targeted goals recommended by scientists; aims to reduce greenhouse gas emission and limit global warming

  Paris Accord
• It provides more leeway for countries to decide on their national targets as Kyoto Protocol predetermines CO2 emission limits per country


  Paris Accord
• When local alliances between state, schools, and communities are replicated at the national level, the success of mitigating global warming becomes doubly significant
• Population pressure forced the government to work with civil society groups, academia, and political parties to get the parliament to pass "a blizzard of laws" 14 passed at once in Japan, known as?


  Pollution Diet of 1970