New Norms and Knowledge in World Politics: Protecting People, Intellectual Property and the Environment by Preslava Stoeva

Author:Preslava Stoeva [Stoeva, Preslava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Environmental, International Relations, International, Globalization, Intellectual Property, Political Science, Law, General, Human Rights
ISBN: 9781135196721
Google: 8q6MAgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 17511042
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

Stages of evolving climate change regulation

Formulating the idea

The idea that greenhouse gas emissions need to be controlled to avoid catastrophic climate change was formulated over a protracted period of time. Scientists began exploring the earth’s atmosphere in the nineteenth century, but it was not until the mid-1950s that they formulated the hypothesis that the increase of CO2 from industrialisation could have extreme consequences for the whole of our environment. This was a decade when the Northern Hemisphere experienced unusually high temperatures, and the popular press used that to spur fears that the world was getting warmer.55

In 1957 Roger Revelle and Hans Suess stirred the scientific circles by showing that the widespread belief that oceans would absorb the excess CO2 from the atmosphere was incorrect, or at least not to the degree proposed by previous studies.56 In 1957–1958, during the International

Box 5.1 Timeline for the creation of international and regional instruments to control climate change

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