绿色科技与永续发展-法律与政策new.ppt

International Environmental Law Teng,Yean-Sen Professor of Law Soochow University teng@scu.edu.tw 綠色科技與永續發展－法律與政策 十五 1 為何需要保護環境 十六 2 為何需要法律以保護環境 十七 3 為何需要國際法的介入 十八 4 如何執行環境法 The effects of climate change are being felt already, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said. Failing to recognize the urgency of this message and acting on it would be nothing less than criminally irresponsible, he said. De Boer was speaking at the start of a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Yan Hong, deputy secretary of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), one of the IPCCs two parent bodies, said climate change bore potential implications for world peace by intensifying squabbles over water, food and energy. It could also lead to massive population resettlement, especially to urban areas that may not have capacity to shelter, feed and employ them. Climate change and life style global warming could decimate the world fisheries sector, threaten the tourism industry and cause widespread job losses among those displaced by its impacts. scores of new jobs would be created in the environment technology sector as countries work to avoid and lessen the effects of climate change. U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner said The problem is the jobs that will be created will not be created at the same time, or in the same place, as the ones that are lost, said Joaquin Nieto, president of Sustainlabour, an international foundation for sustainable development. We are talking about a major change, as substantial as what resulted in the industrial revolution, he told the forum. RISING TEMPERATURES, MORE EXTREME WEATHER as the climate changes, more dramatic weather and disasters - not just droughts, but storms, floods and spreading disease too 250 million people could be displaced by climate-related disasters by 2050 Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia - where the clim