The Kyoto protocol and non-state actors

Abstract

The Kyoto Protocol and Non-State Actors' presents a background to the environmental justice movement by explaining the history of significant documents about global warming and the main actors involved in it. The UN provides a diplomatic forum where states can discuss this issue and make decisions that will affect the world; the purpose of this paper is to explore the realm outside of states and see what role non-state actors play in terms of this protocol's success. Hopefully, this paper proves simple, but not simplistic. The chapters report on basic concepts about the protocol and non-state actors, but they also offer interpretive interjections, which ultimately question the system. If this paper is simple, that is not a reflection on the situation of global warming. Rather it is intended to be a balance to the complexity of the protocols' many participants. Ironically, my paper tends to see the fate of climate change in the hands of the transnational corporations who supposedly are to blame in the first place.