Cashing in on the environment
Cashing in on the environment
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Bulatlat.com
Although the environment gradually became an international concern since the early 70s, the Earth Summit 20 years ago signaled that the world is already alarmed over the state of the environment. This was followed by the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, in which countries committed to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions by five percent as against 1990 levels. Since then, this concern for and discourse on the environment has been the flavor of the last two decades. So much so that it has evolved a language of its own: sustainable development, which actually was coined earlier in 1987 by the Brundtland commission, greenhouse gasses, global warming, emission reduction and trading, carbon footprint, clean development mechanisms, COP or Conference of Parties, REDD or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, mitigation and adaptation strategies, and now “Greening” the economy.
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