Learning Objectives
After finishing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Understand the scope of global environmental challenges.
- Distinguish between the concepts of global warming and climate change.
- Identify the main drivers of climate change.
- Focus on the main effects of climate change.
- Articulate why reaching a global climate change agreement is so difficult.
- Analyze how global forces--in particular markets, changing power, and governance--shape the climate change discussion.