Environmental studies essays

CBA Jamaica: Reducing Climate Change-Driven Erosion and Landslide Risk through Sustainable Agriculture (JCDT) The community based adaptation objective is to integrate climate change risks into sustainable community management of natural resources by strengthening the resilience of communities addressing climate change impacts and to generate knowledge and lessons for replication and up scaling.  Three impact indicators … Read more

Imagine a society knowingly driving itself towards destruction, too stubborn to divert away from its current path. This sounds like a bleak science fiction movie, but it also describes the current state of humanity as it draws nearer and nearer to a climate change catastrophe. Almost everyone agrees at this point that climate change is … Read more

Introduction Plastic pollution is something in which is highly recognized worldwide as a problem for our seas and for our future, but what most people fail to notice is that it is not the only culprit as to why our marine ecosystems are deteriorating. As the climate begins to change drastically and global warming becomes … Read more

High Seas Conservation at the Bottom of the World: Collaborative Governance, Participatory Mapping, and Conservation Opportunity in the Southern Ocean The Context: The Sixth Mass Extinction In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that according to the IUCN Red List between 12% and 52% of various well-studied, higher-order taxa were at risk of extinction (Mace … Read more

The human population’s unnatural acceleration of global warming has the potential to yield quite disastrous and widespread effects. Global warming is an important issue because it will deliver consequences to anyone and anything living on Earth. However, people who have the most influence on this issue cannot seem to meet and discuss the issue at … Read more

There is harm being done to the earth all over right this exact second. What is bringing on the harm? Worldwide environmental change contributes an extraordinary measure of demolition to the world consistently. This is vital in light of the fact that the change is influencing people, creatures, plants and pretty much whatever else that … Read more

Abstract I constructed a question for this project that is currently becoming a cause for global discussion.  I am very interested in the geographical aspects of our world as it is surprisingly unpredictable at times. In the past couple of years we have seen an increase in the world death toll due to natural disasters … Read more

The earth’s climate has been changing throughout the beginning of time. Over time the earth has shown trends of warming and cooling due to the amount of solar energy the earth obtains. The current warming trend is abnormal because average temperatures are rising at a rate higher than ever recorded, and as a result are … Read more

The issues of global warming and climate change are prominent in society today, as they are becoming increasingly more intense, affecting ways of life. One place where climate change and global warming have a major impact is the arctic. That arctic is warming at intense rates, affecting its environment and habitats, raising the global sea … Read more

July 30th, 2018 Question: “What are the main causes of climate change and why is it so difficult to address this problem? What are the possible second and third order consequences of mitigation and adaptation response strategies that could be implemented to minimize the impacts of climate change?” I. Introduction Climate change is happening now. … Read more

The International Relations Between the US, Developing Countries and Key Players China and EU Concerning the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

1. INTRODUCTION Today, climate change has become one of important emerging issues and the biggest concern of mankind as a consequence of scientific evidence about the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007a, 2007b, 2014a), successive scientific assessment reports proved that global average … Read more

More intense heat waves. Stronger and more frequent hurricanes. Shrinking glaciers. Rising sea levels. Longer droughts. More frequent wildfires. Shifting flora and fauna. The effects of climate change are and will continue to be felt across the globe. In addition to growing ecological effects, we can expect to experience increased effects on health resulting from … Read more

Global Climate Change is a phenomenon that involves the warming of the planet due to anthropogenic manipulation of the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect involves the warming of the earth due to outgoing longwave radiation from the earth’s surface becoming trapped in the earth’s atmosphere by gases called greenhouse gases. Examples of greenhouse gases include … Read more

Executive Summary With the upcoming impacts of Brexit, the UK energy market is under increasing pressure on budget planning and future investment decisions particularly reaching environmental targets. BP is increasingly working towards expanding its renewable energy sector and is currently facing uncertainties regarding how Brexit will impact the European Investment Bank’s subsidy program therefore impacting … Read more