ECO 370 Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming Evaluation

Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming Evaluation

University of Phoenix

Environmental Economics

ECO/370

Abstract

Global climate change and global warming are subjects that people either believe is happening or believe is a hoax. The fact that the Earth's average temperature has risen, suggests that humans have influenced the environment enough to cause changes in the temperature. Global climate change and global warming are being affected by people and their disregard or ignorance of their effects on the planet and others. The Kyoto Protocol was established to help fight global warming. It was designed to cut greenhouse gases by 5.2% from industrialized countries compared to the year 1990.

Global warming and global climate change is a...