general flashcards up to week two

IPCC

Intergovernmental panel on climate change

Greenhouse effect

gases outside world atmosphere protect the world and make it habitable an because we add greenhouse gases which ruins the equallibrium the earth needs to survive

Climate justice

The intersectional and hr aspects of respecting the climate

Runaway effect

It sprialling out of controll in this context climate change spiralling

Three types of climate policy

Mitigation, adaption and geoengineering

Three types of mitigation strategy

Regulatory, green industrial and goals and targets

Regulatory mitigation policy

performance standards and setting acceotable levels of pollution

Green industrial policy mitigation

Mobalising the state for decarobonisation using economic incenstives and growth

Goals and targets mitigation policy

Commiting to emission reduction goals

Three types of adaption policy

Structural social and institutional adaption policy

Structural adaption policy

Building structures to protect infrastructure

Social adaptation policy

Getting people to individually adapt

Institutional adaptation policy

Government changes for adaptation

Green capitalism

using tech to decouple capitalism from enviornmental harm

Anthropocene

the phase of the environment we are in now where humans have a vast impact

Two economic causes of climate change

Market faliure and externalities

Market faliure

when markets fails to deliver a positive change such as failing to help with public goods and externalities

Externalities

global consequence of climate change effecting people but not business such as tragedy of the commons