-
The First Earth Day
The first Earth Day is often looked at as the start of the Environment movement. On that day 20 million people filled parks and took to the street to protest critical environmental issues. -
The Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol required 37 industrialized nations, including the U.S., to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. -
The Kyoto Protocol Takes Effect
The Kyoto Protocol Takes Effects just not as planned. Everything went as planned, the major producers of greenhouse gasses including the U.S. and Russia on board. -
Christiana Figueres
After heading a climate-change nonprofit for eight years, she took on leadership of the UNFCCC, the body responsible for international climate-change negotiations. -
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
She has been trying to find a way to connect the internal decisions and reality of what going on. She has been finding how the environment is changing for and around indigenous groups. -
Nasa Reports Further Warming
“Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for — and in many cases is already affecting — a broad range of human and natural systems.”
—NAS report -
The Political Side
The politics around the environment are helping the environment this is because it can help make laws and the more laws that are made the better and cleaner the environment will become. -
Tessa Khan
A court in the Hague had ruled in favor of some 900 Dutch citizens and a group known as the Urgenda Foundation, which had sued the Netherlands, demanding that the state reduce its greenhouse–gas emissions. -
Solar Pannels
The amount of solar panels has increased as the price of each solar panel has decreased. This has made solar panels more available for that average person.