The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5% from 1990 levels between 2008-2012. The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances that deplete it. It has been signed by 196 states and is considered a successful international agreement. The Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce emissions that cause global warming, while the Montreal Protocol phases out emissions harming the ozone layer. Global warming leads to climate change effects like sea level rise and extreme weather, while ozone depletion describes phenomena like a 4% per decade decline in stratospheric ozone
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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5% from 1990 levels between 2008-2012. The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances that deplete it. It has been signed by 196 states and is considered a successful international agreement. The Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce emissions that cause global warming, while the Montreal Protocol phases out emissions harming the ozone layer. Global warming leads to climate change effects like sea level rise and extreme weather, while ozone depletion describes phenomena like a 4% per decade decline in stratospheric ozone
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5% from 1990 levels between 2008-2012. The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances that deplete it. It has been signed by 196 states and is considered a successful international agreement. The Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce emissions that cause global warming, while the Montreal Protocol phases out emissions harming the ozone layer. Global warming leads to climate change effects like sea level rise and extreme weather, while ozone depletion describes phenomena like a 4% per decade decline in stratospheric ozone
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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5% from 1990 levels between 2008-2012. The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances that deplete it. It has been signed by 196 states and is considered a successful international agreement. The Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce emissions that cause global warming, while the Montreal Protocol phases out emissions harming the ozone layer. Global warming leads to climate change effects like sea level rise and extreme weather, while ozone depletion describes phenomena like a 4% per decade decline in stratospheric ozone
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UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECHTURE
ENGG 311: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY ENGINEERING 5:25 7:45 T TH
SUBMITTED BY: JEALLY V. ARABOS BS CE-3
What is KYOTO PROTOCOL?
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving the "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .These amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012. The major distinction between the Protocol and the Convention is that while the Convention encouraged industrialized countries to stabilize GHG emissions, the Protocol commits them to do so. The objective of the Kyoto climate change conference was to establish a legally binding international agreement, whereby all the participating nations commit themselves to tackling the issue of global warming and greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The detailed rules for the implementation of the Protocol were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh in 2001, and are called the Marrakesh Accords.
What is Montreal Protocol?
The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. The treaty was opened for signature on September 16, 1987, and entered into force on January 1, 1989, followed by a first meeting in Helsinki, May 1989. Since then, it has undergone seven revisions, in 1990 (London), 1991 (Nairobi), 1992 (Copenhagen), 1993 (Bangkok), 1995 (Vienna), 1997 (Montreal), and 1999 (Beijing). It is believed that if the international agreement is adhered to, the ozone layer is expected to recover by 2050. Due to its widespread adoption and implementation it has been hailed as an example of exceptional international co-operation, with Kofi Annan quoted as saying that "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol". It has been ratified by 196 states.
The Difference between the Two
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. While the
Montreal protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer (a
protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the o of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion.
Global Warming VS Climate Change
Global warming is the ongoing rise in the average temperature of Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The scientific consensus is that global warming is occurring and was initiated by human activities, especially those that increase concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as deforestation and burning of fossil fuels. An increase in global temperature will cause the symptoms of climate change to occur. Sea levels will rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts. Other likely effects of the warming include more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events including heat waves, droughts and heavy rainfall events, species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes, and changes in agricultural yields.
Global Warming VS Ozone Depletion
The harmful substances and gases that are accumulating to the Earths atmosphere do not just contribute to global warming but also to ozone depletion. Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere (the ozone layer), and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions. The latter phenomenon is referred to as the ozone hole. The details of polar ozone hole formation differ from that of midlatitude thinning, but the most important process in both is catalytic destruction of ozone by atomic halogens. CFCs and other contributory substances are referred to as ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
