Mod 59 Test

Mod 55: Ozone: Normal Stratospheric formation

  • Impact of Fcs (Chem)

Mod 56: Greenhouse gases and albedo

Mod 57: Climate 

  • Changes

  • Sea level

  • Ice Melt

  • Temp changes

  • Oceans acidification

Mod 58: Legislations

Kyoto Protocol: The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty adopted in 1997 that aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from industrialized nations.

Paris Climate Agreement: limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees.

Mod 59: Impacts on Biodiversity

Hippco: Discuss

H: Habitat destruction

I: Invasive Species

P: Population growth (human)

P: Pollution

C: Climate Change

O: Overharvesting/Overexploitation (Oil)

Legislation 

  • Lacey Act: The Lacey Act is a U.S. law that prohibits trafficking in illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold fish, wildlife, and plants.

  • Marine mammals: The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) is a US federal law enacted in 1972 to conserve marine mammal populations and protect them from extinction or depletion due to human activities.

  • CITES: stands for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, an international agreement that regulates international trade in wild animals and plants to prevent their extinction.

  • Endangered Species Act: The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the primary federal law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species. It provides protections for fish, wildlife, and plants listed as threatened or endangered, establishes processes for adding and removing species, and requires the development of recovery plans.