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As we may know, China is on top of the overpopulation list with more than 1 billion people in their country alone. The needed resources for these 1 billion people is demanding. Cars are needed, food are essential. “Most Chinese-financed, coal-fired power plants built overseas use low-efficiency, subcritical coal technology, which produces some of the highest emissions of any form of power generation.” (The National Interest quoted). Their growing economy also plays a role in the destruction of the environment along with such a larger amount of people. The air quality in certain cities are so low people are forced to wear masks for their own safety.
Here are their solutions:
China has taken steps to discontinue coal-fired power plants, reduce overall emission levels and cut particulate-matter emission rates. Huge progress has been made on air quality, and there are now fewer smog days in China’s largest cities.

China needs an estimated additional RMB 40.3 trillion ($6.4 trillion) to RMB 123.4 trillion ($19.4 trillion) to finance the transition to a greener economy. It has started collecting an environment tax to help fund its environmental policies, and is also trying to attract more green investment.

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1. Philippines is one of the top 10 most threatened by and vulnerable to climate change with a climate risk index of 11.17. In 2018, a typhoon caused the country a total of 455 deaths and more than $4.5 million with a drop in GDP of 0.48% per capita. (Iberdrola) Philippines definitely had to execute strong actions towards climate change to reduce the damage it caused.

2. As a developing country, the government established frameworks in order to meet its national development goals and international commitments. They set targets to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in order to reduce the damage it causes in short-term and long-term to Philippines. (Green Climate Fund Philippines)

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South Korea
1. Korea ranked 53rd rank in CCPI, which is very poor and low. It is because their carbon dioxide emissions are very high, it's about 90%, but their renewable energy importance is low. I want to know what is country trying to do for the climate action.
2. Many experts say that neighboring country China's climate and air pollution affects Korea. I want to investigate if yes, how much of air pollution comes to Korea, and how bad is it.

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Canada
1. Canada is placed at 9th place for countries that is most at risk from the climate change. The cold weather of Canada is kind of unstable and tend to change.
I want to research more about this country because Canada is in top 3 coldest contries in the world.

2. Canada has a lot of rare species. Climate change is one of the most dangerous factor that will change it's habitat, and could endanger the species. Many habitat will be destroyed, and the rare species will go into extinction.

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I want to do research about New Zealand. The two reasons for my choice are:
1. Even though New Zealand is a small country, it is well-developed in economy. This country is also known for doing a good job protecting the environment, proving that it is one of few countries to have "0% of population exposed to unsafe air pollution levels" (USA Today). Therefore, I want to know how the system (governments and organisations) works to remain the top countries contributing in solving climate change.
2. However, there are still improvements that need to be made to fix "deforestation, soil erosion, and destruction of wildlife habitats" (WWF) continue to be problems. Also, New Zealand's greenhouse gas emission is increasing quickly in the recent years. Because of that, I want to investigate the mistakes and problems in the environmental policies occurring here.
Citation: Kolb, Elzy, and Samuel Stebbins. “Countries Doing the Most (and Least) to Protect the Environment.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 14 July 2019, www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/14/climate-change-countries-doing-most-least-to-protect-environment/39534413/.

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1. India is the second most populated country in the world with around 1.3 billion citizens, yet India is in the top ten countries to have adopted measures to mitigate climate change.  Therefore, I want to research more about how did India, a very populous country, achieve this ranking for two consecutive years.

2. Furthermore, India signed the Paris Agreement in 2016 and it is one of the few countries meeting its self-set target. In fact, India is in the top three countries that are most effectively reducing carbon emissions. I also want to research more about what policies and actions the government has taken to achieve this result as well as the reasons why most countries can't achieve their Paris goal.

3. Finally, I was taught as a kid since elementary school that India was one of the most polluted country. Since then, I have always thought about India as a developing country with polluted air, environment and slums. Therefore, I want to change my idea of how this country change through time.

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USA
USA gonna be a interesting case to investigate on, there are two reason for this. USA is one of the most developed country in the world nowadays, with ton of factory, and the largest economy the government need to mind. A action to reduce climate change and still protect the economy is interesting to see. Secondly, there are more than 1 reason that lead to the climate change in USA, which mean that there are load of information I can look into and investigate

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1. As the world's largest tropical rainforest-Amazon rainforest locate in Brazil, I want to work on this country to see how they organize such an enormous biodiversity and how the biodiversity there is facing with climate change. (The Forest fire in 2019's first half).

2. On the other hand, Brazil has several problems such as slums, where poor people are unschooled and not well-educated, hence, these places produce a big amount of garbage which lead to climate change and water pollution.

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1. During the war, Japan had received atomic bombs, which killed cities and people. That bomb causes the high risks of cancer and poisonous for people and plants in that area.

2. As a modern country, Japan also facing with pollutions, especially in big cities. But in 2019, Japan (Kyoto city) was the most cleanest place in Asia. I want to research on how a country can develop and also keep the environment clean.
(https://ph.asiatatler.com/life/urban-escapes-5-destinations-asia-cleanest-air-asia)

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I want to investigate the US because I see that the US has a lot of climate change activity.

1. Looking at statistics, annual average temperature over the contiguous United States has increased by 1.8°F (1.0°C) over the period from 1901 to 2016. Because of this, the US ranked 24th on climate. It is currently the second-biggest contributor to the climate crisis, after China (and yet, China is the country which pollutes the most according to statistcs).

2. Climate change also makes hurricanes are stronger, bigger, and slower; the frequency and severity of land-falling “atmospheric rivers" on the U.S. West Coast will increase; wildfires are larger, hotter, and burn longer.

3.They're doing their part in stopping climate change by urging companies to commit to stop cutting them down—a commitment known as zero-deforestation. They are currently focusing on the beef and soybean supply chain. Regional Climate Action: They also must reduce and ultimately eliminate carbon pollution from power plants. So they actually are working hard to prevent this disaster from becoming worse.

Sources:
Eos
https://eos.org/features/how-will-climate-change-affect-the-united-states-in-decades-to-come#:~:text=Annual%20average%20temperature%20over%20the,1976%E2%80%932005)%2C%20under%20all

USCUSA
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emissions

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/04/us-ranks-24th-in-the-world-on-environmental-performance

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China is one of developing countries and it's being impacted a lot by climate change. Therefore:
1) I extremely want to explore the original causes of climate change in China. Why China became the most populated country. Additionally, how the climate changes seriously and the strong impact of it on the health of citizens (decrease the rate of life expectancy, increase the rate of dead)
2) China is a neighboring country of Vietnam, therefore, the climate change in China will have an influence in Vietnamese citizen.

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Sweden

1: As Sweden is one of the less amount of carbon emission in dealing with nature, protecting it, it also represent Earth best effort currently to live green. Also knowing best is almost like knowing humans current limitation.

2: Morover as one of the  country with beautiful nature, and clean atmosphere, it will have the best technology, methods, that is both unique showing th possibilities that human could be taken to.
3. It is even more interesting because Sweden is not a big city nor rich in resource and nature, however they fid away showing that every country could eventually be better

CCPI Sources:

https://ccpi.org/country/swe/#:~:text=For%20the%20fourth%20year%20in,for%20its%20climate%20policy%20performance.

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1. I want to work on Singapore because it is a neighboring country that is close to Vietnam, yet it has one of the cleanest environment in the world. This is because of the regulations and policies of the government and I want to research further about their actions to keep Singapore from climate change. It is interesting to know that in 1960s it was one of the world's filthiest cities. (Worldcleanupday organisation)

2. Singapore signed the Paris Agreement back in 2016 and have been aiming for goals of lowering emissions. I want to research on what they have done to reduce the emissions.

Sources:
World Cleanup Day, www.worldcleanupday.org/news/2018/09/13/challenges-of-the-worlds-cleanest-country-singapore.
“Singapore And International Efforts.” NCCS, www.nccs.gov.sg/singapores-climate-action/singapore-and-international-efforts/#:~:text=Singapore's%20Pledge%20to%20Reduce%20Emissions&text=In%20line%20with%20the%20agreement,aim%20of%20peaking%20around%202030.

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1. Denmark is ranked 5th (which is the second highest rating currently, below Sweden) on the Climate Change Performance Index for 2020. I want to know what they did to achieve this ranking.

2. I also find it interesting that Denmark had put in a law so that they can reach emissions that are 70% less than their emissions in 1990. They also plan on committing it to for the the next eleven years. Denmark also want to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

Sources:

CCPI

www.climatechangenews.com/2019/12/06/denmark-adopts-climate-law-cut-emissions-70-2030/#:~:text=Denmark's%20parliament%20adopted%20a%20new,with%20a%20ten%2Dyear%20perspective.

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1. I want to do Vietnam, because we are living in Vietnam right now and it's crucial to know what actions are taken to help making the climate better.

2. Also I have heard that climate change have a lot of negative impacts especially on Vietnam's agriculture and economy (UNFCCC); so it is very interesting to see what actions are taken upon the government to maintain the current growth of the economy, considering we're still a developing country.