Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change: Institutional Approaches, a New Business Alliance, and Civil Courage to Live Up to Ethical Standards

Food Ethics ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Franz-Theo Gottwald
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
New Business

scholarly journals Climate Fiction and the Ethics of Existentialism

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Jens Kramshøj Flinker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Ethical System ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Climate Fiction ◽  
Better Than

        The purpose of this article is twofold: Existentialism as a philosophical discipline and ethical reference point seems to be a rare guest in ecocriticism. Based on an analysis of Lyra Koli's climate fiction Allting Växer (2018) this article argues that existentialism has something to offer to the ecocritical field. I make use of an econarratological approach, drawing on James Phelan's narrative ethics. Thus, I emphasize the article's second purpose, as narrative ethics is about reconstructing narratives own ethical standards rather than the reader bringing a prefabricated ethical system to the narrative. This reading practice can help to question the idea that some ethical and philosophical standards are better than others within ecocriticism—by encouraging scholars in ecocriticism to relate to what existentialism has to do with climate change in this specific case. In continuation of my analysis, I argue that Allting Växer is pointing at a positive side of existentialist concepts such as anxiety or anguish, that is, that there is a reflecting and changing potential in these moods or experiences. This existentialist framework contrasts with the interpretation of "Anthropocene disorder" (Timothy Clark) as the only outcome when confronting the complexity of the Anthropocene.

Financial Risks of Climate Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Janis Sarra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Market Risk ◽  
Investment Risk ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
New Business ◽  
Policy Risk

Chapter 3 examines a number of financial risks to the viability of businesses due to climate change. It describes how the acute and chronic impacts discussed in Chapter 2 create new business risks, both physical risks and transition risks. It explores technology risk, market risk, and investment risk, risk to the company’s reputation for failure to adopt a climate plan, and policy risk. It examines the implications for investors if assets are stranded or reduced in value. It introduces concerns regarding planetary boundaries and what impacts may be irreversible once they are crossed. This chapter also examines how women are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts and why Indigenous peoples are deserving of special attention and respect in developing policy and business practices related to climate change.

Climate change and finance: New business opportunities

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
B FURRER ◽  
H HUGENSCHMIDT ◽  
P KONCZ
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
New Business

scholarly journals The Flexible Mechanisms to Combat Climate Change: A Critical View of their Legitimacy

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa M. Fernández Egea
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Greenhouse Gases Emissions ◽  
New Business ◽  
Reduction Of Emissions ◽  
Environmental Integrity ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Equitable Treatment ◽  
Flexible Mechanisms

The Kyoto Protocol makes available the use of three economic mechanisms as a supplementary way of mitigating climate change: joint implementation, clean development mechanism and emission trading. They share the same rationale, which is to provide flexibility to achieve the compliance of the emission targets, allowing for the reduction of emissions at a minimum cost by efficiently allocating the responsibilities between agents. The new business opportunities they offer have attracted the attention of most developed and emerging countries. However, it is doubtful that they can bring an adequate solution in stabilizing and reducing greenhouse gases emissions, threatening the environmental integrity of the climate change regime (CCR); nor do they offer a fair and equitable solution to the challenges of global warming. Therefore, it is important that their use remains supplemental to the main goal of reducing and stabilizing green house gases emissions. As a matter of fact, sustainable development could only be achieved if economic efficiency is balanced with environmental integrity and equitable treatment.

Climate change—a new consumer mindset: creating new business opportunities and challenges

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
David Abood ◽  
Bernadette Cullinane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Consumer Action ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
New Business ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
New Consumer

Are individuals ready to act and take concrete action to address climate change? Will consumers try to use their buying power to reduce the level of emissions? And will they be prepared to pay more for products and services that help achieve this objective? The answer to all of these questions appears to be yes. Up to now, it has been difficult for companies in the resources industries such as utilities and oil and gas businesses, to gauge the potential impact of consumer action on their businesses. Now, a new survey of more than 7,500 consumers worldwide shows that consumers across the globe are not just aware of climate change as an issue, but are adopting a new mindset that will change the basis on which they make buying decisions. Designed by Accenture, the survey shows in particular that consumers will favour providers whose products and services make a positive contribution to tackling climate change—and will look unfavourably on those that ignore the issue.

scholarly journals The Flexible Mechanisms to Combat Climate Change: A Critical View of their Legitimacy

10.17345/1189 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa M. Fernández Egea
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Greenhouse Gases Emissions ◽  
New Business ◽  
Reduction Of Emissions ◽  
Environmental Integrity ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Equitable Treatment ◽  
Flexible Mechanisms

The Kyoto Protocol makes available the use of three economic mechanisms as a supplementary way of mitigating climate change: joint implementation, clean development mechanism and emission trading. They share the same rationale, which is to provide flexibility to achieve the compliance of the emission targets, allowing for the reduction of emissions at a minimum cost by efficiently allocating the responsibilities between agents. The new business opportunities they offer have attracted the attention of most developed and emerging countries. However, it is doubtful that they can bring an adequate solution in stabilizing and reducing greenhouse gases emissions, threatening the environmental integrity of the climate change regime (CCR); nor do they offer a fair and equitable solution to the challenges of global warming. Therefore, it is important that their use remains supplemental to the main goal of reducing and stabilizing green house gases emissions. As a matter of fact, sustainable development could only be achieved if economic efficiency is balanced with environmental integrity and equitable treatment.

Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 723-729
Author(s):  
Roslyn Gleadow ◽  
Jim Hanan ◽  
Alan Dorin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Food Security ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
Plant Insect Interactions ◽  
Native Habitat ◽  
Insect Pollinators ◽  
Insect Interactions

Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduction of agricultural monocultures, and the destruction of insect native habitat, are all potential contributors to this grave situation. Some researchers are working towards a future where natural insect pollinators might be replaced with free-flying robotic bees, an ecologically problematic proposal. We argue instead that creating environments that are friendly to bees and exploring the use of other species for pollination and bio-control, particularly in non-European countries, are more ecologically sound approaches. The computer simulation of insect-plant interactions is a far more measured application of technology that may assist in managing, or averting, ‘Insect Armageddon' from both practical and ethical viewpoints.

Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Millington ◽  
Peter M. Cox ◽  
Jonathan R. Moore ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Diffusion Rate ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Intraspecies Competition ◽  
High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

Climate change and breeding success: decline of the capercaillie in Scotland

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Moss ◽  
James Oswald ◽  
David Baines
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Breeding Success
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