Course:VANT149/2021/Capstone/Arts/Team41
=Research Proposal Presentation Title
Canada’s Carbon Emission Restriction Policy
(Comparison with Asian Industrial Powers’ Policies)
Student researchers
Rukai Cheng
Takashi
Yu-chin Lin (Kelly)
Junbo Jing
What is your research question?
Main: Policies use by Canadian government to curb the carbon emission. Sub: Policies and carbon emission situation computation between Japan, China and Canada.
Research proposal keywords or concepts
The temperatures are rising dramatically in Canada.
Global Warming.
Carbon Emission.
How would you summarize your proposed research idea?
The temperature are now raising dramatically in the world, we pick one of the three biggest countries who got this issue. Factories, maximum of numbers of people with transportations these are all the biggest reason for the carbon dioxide (global warming). We choose Canada, China and Japan become the three main countries for our research, we try to discover a way to solve or help with this problem. To make sure we get more right and enough resources for the research so we start with the one beside us.
Where is the literature gap and how does your proposed research attempt to fill that gap?
1. We can't get the latest information and recently published literature about the polies to curb the carbon emission in these three countries.
2. We haven’t found any specific policies in the literature. Only a few Canadian experts have provided the theoretical framework (CGE model) to deal with carbon emissions which can only implement in an ideal situation and has not yet been implemented in real situation and the Paris Agreement which is posted a long time ago.
Why is this gap worthy of research?
According to the first gap, because the latest policies are developed according to the latest social environment, the latest policies are more valuable. For the second gap, we can deeply study the adaptability of the ideal model and the Paris agreement to the situation of 2021.(Or find out if CEG model can adapt to the real situation in Canada)
This research contributes to the improvement of Canada’s environmental policies, suggesting clues used to understand the actual state of them. These clues could allow us to judge whether the new ones need to be implemented or not. Future policies would take sustainability into the consideration deeply.
What made your group interested in and/or what excites you about your proposed topic?
Recently, there are many serious unusual weathers caused by the climate change. The main cause of climate change is the massive carbon dioxide emitted by the human activity. This critical situation is becoming closer and closer to humanity, and we watch more and more topics about climate change in the news and on internet sites. These things interested our group in this research. In addition, another reason why we are interested in the environmental policy in Canada is that the government action is essential to solving those problems.
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