Climate Change

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Topic: In what ways does climate change challenge International relations, if at all?

Climate change has been one of the biggest threats to the environment. International relations scholars have initiated various approaches to tackle this issue through means of international cooperation and implementing negotiations as well as treaties. Issues on climate change we believe is a global problem and activities from one country can affect the rest of the world. It can be seen that, the only way to stop climate change is to cut down greenhouse gas. It has been defined as a rise in global temperatures***

The purpose of this essay is to discuss how and why these impacts of climate change has challenged international relations. The first paragraph will discuss the impacts on climate change from a political standpoint. The second and third part of the essay will identify some fundamental key points, such as security and globalisation as part of the climatic problem, as far as international relations is concerned. The last part of this essay will provide an overview of a general conclusion of the discussed aspects of climate change, as far as International relations are concerned.

The issue of climate change struck the political agenda in 1988 and from there, on going international conferences emerged to provide policy makers with decisions in forming treaties and agreements to combat the problems of climate change. International cooperation led to the establishment of intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) in 1988, which was the first function made by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to address this matter on climate change. Through this cooperation, negotiations between states developed the signing of treaties. However, disputes arises for instance, in the signing of the Kyoto protocol; most countries signed and ratified it except the U.S who declared against it, just to protect their economy. In...