scholarly journals The Role of Climate Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Mark Omorovie Ikeke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Climate Ethics ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Facts

The environmental crisis manifests in various ways such as: desertification, deforestation, marine and atmospheric pollution, environmental racism, destruction of biodiversity and so forth. One of these, the destruction of biodiversity has continued unabated. Many factors have caused biodiversity loss. The most serious of these factors is climate change. This paper argues that to conserve biodiversity there is serious need to combat climate change. Combating climate change requires more than knowledge of scientific facts and public policy, there is need for climate ethics and ethically reconstructive human behaviours that act for climate justice. Through critical analytic and hermeneutic methods the concepts that ground the paper are interpreted and examined. The issues that the paper deals with are critically dissected and appraised. The paper finds that biodiversity loss is one of the most serious problems in the environmental crisis. The paper concludes that climate ethics can help to mitigate biodiversity loss.

scholarly journals Losing Hope? The Environmental Crisis Today

ANVIL ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Hodson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
General Public ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Global Water

Abstract Environmentalists and scientists who study the environment often give a pretty bleak picture of the future. Surveys of secular views on the environment suggest that the general public in the developed West are concerned about the state of the environment. After considering all of the environmental problems that are causing scientists to worry, this paper then concentrates on four: climate change; biodiversity loss; global water supply; and the increase in our human population. Finally we will see what scientists have to say about hope in a time of environmental crisis

BUILDING A GREEN ECONOMY: ADVANCING CLIMATE JUSTICE THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL-LABOR ALLIANCES*

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
Joanna L. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Organizational Diversity ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Climate Change Policies

This article explores the role of environmental-labor coalitions in creating opportunities to promote green jobs and to shape climate change policies. The development of a green economy is critical for combating climate change, as well as for addressing rising unemployment and the expansion of precarious work. My research is based on a qualitative study of environmental-labor coalitions in California, United States, and British Columbia, Canada, including fifty-six in-depth digitally recorded interviews with environmental and labor movement leaders and policymakers. The findings point to the importance of three key mechanisms that shape the success of these coalitions: (1) drawing on the strength of organizational diversity, (2) fostering relationships of trust that allow organizations to adopt flexible ideologies, make concessions and tradeoffs, and create hybrid identities, and (3) frame bridging by local social justice organizations to mitigate conflict between environmental and labor movements.

scholarly journals Climate Fiction and the Crisis of Imagination

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Chiara Xausa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
Climate Fiction ◽  
Climate Crisis

This article analyses the representation of environmental crisis and climate crisis in Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Indigenous Australian writer Alexis Wright. Building upon the groundbreaking work of environmental humanities scholars such as Heise (2008), Clark (2015), Trexler (2015) and Ghosh (2016), who have emphasised the main challenges faced by authors of climate fiction, it considers the novels as an entry point to address the climate-related crisis of culture – while acknowledging the problematic aspects of reading Indigenous texts as antidotes to the 'great derangement’ – and the danger of a singular Anthropocene narrative that silences the ‘unevenly universal’ (Nixon, 2011) responsibilities and vulnerabilities to environmental harm. Exploring themes such as environmental racism, ecological imperialism, and the slow violence of climate change, it suggests that Alexis Wright’s novels are of utmost importance for global conversations about the Anthropocene and its literary representations, as they bring the unevenness of environmental and climate crisis to visibility.

scholarly journals The emergence of carbon disclosure: Exploring the role of governance entrepreneurs

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 1437-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Pattberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Growth Convergence ◽  
Hard Law ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Last Stage

An innovative approach to mitigating climate change beyond the international negotiations and hard-law approaches is governing by disclosure – the acquisition and dissemination of information to influence the behavior of particular actors. This paper analyzes the institutionalization of carbon disclosure as an organizational field, focusing in particular on the role of governance entrepreneurs in this process. The emergence of carbon disclosure is scrutinized along four distinct stages of transnational institutionalization: start-up; competition and growth; convergence and consolidation; integration into international public policy. For each phase, the role and relevance of governance entrepreneurs is analyzed. The article finds that during the first stage, entrepreneurs mainly acts as innovators and “out-of-the-box” thinkers; in stage 2, entrepreneurs can be characterized as flexible adaptors and opportunity seekers, while in stage 3, the role of meta-governors in dominant. Finally, the last stage, entrepreneurs acts as connectors and bridge-builder between the transnational sphere of carbon disclosure and the wider international governance arena.

scholarly journals PERSPEKTIF KEADILAN IKLIM DALAM INSTRUMEN HUKUM LINGKUNGAN INTERNASIONAL TENTANG PERUBAHAN IKLIM

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deni Bram
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
International Level ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Combat Climate Change

The issue of climate change has become a central point of attention the world community on this century. In scientists view says that if we fail to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for ten to twenty years ahead, we face the possibility of harmful environmental disaster at the end of this century. Legal instruments at international level which is present as a step to mitigate climate change were felt only in the interests of developing countries alone that puts the asymmetric advantage. The concept of climate justice is felt not touched so that the regime to combat climate change often fail in the fulfillment of justice for present and future.Keywords: climate change, intergenerational equity, intra generational equity

Criminal justice responses to climate change

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
State Power ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Court Cases

This chapter addresses how criminal justice institutions are responding to climate change. This entails description of court cases intended to bolster the reduction of carbon emissions and the overall role of climate change litigation in the pursuit of climate justice. The chapter argues that an action plan against climate change must include activities and responses that involve the law and legal change, environmental law enforcement activities, courts and adjudication processes, and direct social action. Ultimately, however, this will also require action in and around the exercise of state power as well — since the carbon vandal more often than not acts with direct and indirect state support, through government policy decisions and via laws and courts that are skewed in pro-business directions. The place and role of the criminologist in pursuit of climate justice, therefore, can never be politically neutral.

scholarly journals The Role of Large Management Consultancy Firms in Global Public Policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 582-598
Author(s):  
Glenn Morgan ◽  
Andrew Sturdy ◽  
Michael Frenkel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Management Consultancy ◽  
Global Public Policy

The formation of global public policy takes place in diverse fields, populated by a range of different actors. One important, but neglected group is large management consultancy firms. This chapter examines why and how such firms have been able to exercise influence over global public policy. Emphasis is placed on their reputational power, the organizational structures which enable them to use and develop expertise, and the importance of their social networks amongst other elite actors. The chapter illustrates these themes through a case study of the REDD Initiative sponsored by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It concludes by outlining a research agenda which focuses on the power of consultancies in this arena, but also recognizes the limits to this power.

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