Environmental Diplomacy.

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Climatic Change:

Table of Content

Abstract:

Introduction:

Summary of the climatic change:

Literature review:

Research questions:

Causes of Climatic Change:

Indicators of climatic change in regions:

Health and Environmental effects of Climatic Change:

Measures put in place to control climatic change by UNEP:

Achievements of UNEP in protecting the Environment:

Trends and Emerging issues on Climatic Change:

Conclusion:

Recommendations:

a) Abstract:

Climatic change has been a great issue as based on environmental diplomacy field. This part of the dissertation essay should give a brief description of the comprisals of the climatic change as part of emerging issues and trends in the environmental diplomacy field (Abbott, Kenneth W. et al, 2001, p, 17). This summary should be placed on a different page from the cover page and other pages. It should serve the purpose of briefing the readers of what the essay is all about in short and clear form.

b) Introduction:

The introduction part would give a description of what climatic change means. This section then would give a guideline of what the essay would talk about in an orderly manner.

c) Summary on the climatic change:

This section would fully analyze climatic change from the environmental diplomacy point of view. This would comprise of different types of climatic changes that occur in different part of the world and how they influence the lives of people in that specific region (Frederick M, 2000, p. 517)

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d) Literature Review:

This section of the essay would give more information on climatic change as stipulated by the literature materials. This information might partly collaret with what is observed practically in the environmental diplomatic field. This would include;

The causes of climatic change as depicted by the literature material.

Indicators of climatic change.

Effect of climatic change to human life, animal life and plant life.

Rules and regulation put in place by both United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and World Environmental Organization (WEO) in order to protect and conserve the environment (Bernstein, Steven, 2001, p. 278).

e) Research Questions:

This section of the essay would provide the questions that would guide the researchers during their research. During the research, these questions are either submitted directly to the respondent in the field of research or questions are jut framed and asked by the researchers themselves. The information collected from the field of research is then put down in book in order to be compared to information literature. The questions are to be logically arranged from simple to complex and not leading.

f) Indicators of climatic change in regions:

There are certain natural and artificial occurrences that indicate that climatic change is taking place in a certain region of the earth. This section of the essay would give a description of different climatic change indicators. This would include:

Migration of animals from one part of the region to another.

Migration of certain birds from an area that the climate is changing to another region with a favourable.

A drastic rise in atmospheric temperature of certain region.

Weathering of plants.

Melting of ice bergs and ice blocks in upper region of mountains in given areas.

Condensing of snow at regions below the condensation level.

f) Causes of Climatic Change:

This part of the essay would give a full description of all natural and artificial causes of climatic change in different regions of the world. The fact is that over the past few centuries, there has been a high levels of climatic change in different parts of the world and has greatly affected human activities in the world. Under climatologically study that was carried out to find out the causes of these climatic changes, it was realized that they had been caused by a number of factors. This section of the essay would therefore, fully describe how the factors below have caused climatic changes.

The variations that take place in the characteristics of the earth’s orbit.

The variations in the carbon dioxide content in the earth’s atmosphere.

The variations in the atmospheric sulphur content.

The volcanic eruptions that take place in an area.

Variations in the solar output to the earth’s surface.

The act of deforestation and soil erosion in a region.

Changes in the land use to unfavourable means of land use.

The changes in the oceans current circulation.

The reduction in the other Greenhouse Gases.

g) Measures put in place to control climatic change by UNEP:

This section of the essay would give detailed information pertaining to the measures that have been put in place to control the occurrence of climatic change. This would include all the principals, rule and regulations put in place by these international agencies to aid in the process of controlling climatic change and conservation of the environment. All these rule, principals and regulatory guidelines would be full analysed in this section of the essay.

h) Achievements of UNEP in protecting the Environment:

The United Nations Environmental Programmes (UNEP) and the World Environmental Organization (WEO) have tried as hard as they could to control climatic change. They have made some achievements and this part would give a full description of the achievements that the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and World Environmental Organization in controlling climatic change (Kenneth W. et al, 2001, p, 36).

i) Trends and Emerging issues on Climatic Change:

There have been quite a number of trends and emerging issues in the world climate. All these trends and emerging issues would be discussed in this section of the essay (Frederick M, 2000, p. 517)

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j) Conclusion:

The conclusion of the dissertation essay would give a summary of the important issues covered in the essay. This would comprise of the causes of climatic change which would include the human activities that causes climatic change and its control among others.

j) Recommendations:

The recommendation section of this essay would give advices to the entire world on what they should do in order to avoid climatic change from taking place. This is because this essay aims at tabling one of the major environmental issues that have great impact both negative and positive on human lives (Bernstein, Steven, 2001, p. 278).

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