ABSTRACT
Although the scientifi c community has understood since the early 1800s how greenhouse gases that naturally appear in the Earth’s atmosphere aff ect global temperatures, the international debate about what should be done to reduce the threat of human-induced warming caused by increasing levels of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases began in earnest in the early 1980s. For most of the time since then, the focus of this debate has been on the obligations of nations to reduce emissions to prevent dangerous climate change. This chapter examines the obligations of individuals for climate change.
