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| Carbon Trading to Combat Climate Change
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Petros Chavula,, Birhanie Alemu, Marie Gracie Ntezimana, Eurelia Mutinta Kazekula
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Abstract:
Global climate change has negative effects, on impoverished individuals and poor countries are more severely affected than others. They are particularly at risk due to their heavy reliance on natural resources and poor ability to adapt to climatic change upshots. However, by lowering carbon emissions, carbon trading systems should enhance the environment's air quality and sustenance. The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is more dependent on human activity, making it easier to govern and control. The main organic sources of greenhouse gases are biomass decomposition, natural fires, and biological respiration. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increase the Earth's natural greenhouse effect and cause global warming by trapping outgoing infrared radiation within the atmosphere due to the formed pseudo blanket. Global warming impacts humans, plants and animals via a variety of mechanisms with varying levels of complexity, directness, and timing. The negative effects of climate change may be mitigated through adaptation, but this option must be carefully considered given that developing nations are clearly at a disadvantage in terms of technology, resources, and institutional capacity. The capacity to adapt is particularly related to socioeconomic characteristics.
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