scholarly journals Neoliberal Bioeconomies? Co-constructing Markets and Natures

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Kean Birch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Natural State ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Opening Up

AbstractThe bioeconomy is a key low-carbon transition pathway to address climate change promoted by a range of policymakers. The bioeconomy has been defined as a market-based strategy for dealing with environmental problems, largely because it seeks to insert bio-based products, fuels, and materials into prevailing economic infrastructures and institutions, rather than challenging underlying capitalist logics. As such, it can be seen as a ‘neoliberal’ response to climate change that reflects theoretical debates about the neoliberalization of nature. Such criticism, however, tends to treat markets as aberrations of nature and disrupting notions of a pristine, untouched natural state. In contrast, I argue that analysing the bioeconomy reveals the co-construction of markets and natures, rather than the imposition of markets on natures. Opening up criticism helps to provide an understanding of how else the bioeconomy could be organized and of the sorts of socio-material arrangements that we view as supportable.

Promoting Green and Low-Carbon Development to Address Challenges of Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750008
Author(s):  
Zhenhua XIE
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Development Path ◽  
International Obligation ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Low Carbon Development ◽  
Major Progress

A general consensus has been developed to proactively address climate change and promote green and low-carbon development in the international community. China, as a responsible major developing country, takes green and low-carbon development not only as its due international obligation to tackle global climate change, but also a priority in the implementation of the “Five Key Concepts for Development” ( http://keywords.china.org.cn/2016-03/01/content_37907679.htm ) and the realization of the “Two Centenary Goals” ( http://www.china.org.cn/china/china_key_words/2014-11/18/content_34158771.htm ). In this paper, the author reviews the major progress in tackling climate change worldwide in recent years, explores the nature of climate change based on the experiences of developed countries and China’s choice of development path, and analyzes China’s achievements and future development potential in green and low-carbon development.

scholarly journals Stimulating a Canadian narrative for climate

FACETS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Potvin ◽  
Divya Sharma ◽  
Irena Creed ◽  
Sally Aitken ◽  
François Anctil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will

This perspective documents current thinking around climate actions in Canada by synthesizing scholarly proposals made by Sustainable Canada Dialogues (SCD), an informal network of scholars from all 10 provinces, and by reviewing responses from civil society representatives to the scholars’ proposals. Motivated by Canada’s recent history of repeatedly missing its emissions reduction targets and failing to produce a coherent plan to address climate change, SCD mobilized more than 60 scholars to identify possible pathways towards a low-carbon economy and sustainable society and invited civil society to comment on the proposed solutions. This perspective illustrates a range of Canadian ideas coming from many sectors of society and a wealth of existing inspiring initiatives. Solutions discussed include climate change governance, low-carbon transition, energy production, and consumption. This process of knowledge synthesis/creation is novel and important because it provides a working model for making connections across academic fields as well as between academia and civil society. The process produces a holistic set of insights and recommendations for climate change actions and a unique model of engagement. The different voices reported here enrich the scope of possible solutions, showing that Canada is brimming with ideas, possibilities, and the will to act.

INCENTIVE POLICIES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE IN CHINA

2012 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250031 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUN JIN ◽  
YING DONG ◽  
JIN CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The World ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Incentive Policies ◽  
New Energy Vehicle ◽  
New Energy Vehicles

China has launched a set of policies and projects to address climate change, one of the most serious problems in the world. This paper reviews the Chinese policies and national plans on the encouragement of environmentally beneficial and energy-saving innovations. Policies on the energy industry and the development of new energy vehicle industry are taken as cases to illustrate in detail the Chinese policies on climate change. The research reveals that actions on the low carbon innovation, such as the innovation on new energy vehicles, not only benefit the dealing with climate change, but also contribute to the strategies of catching up advanced countries.

scholarly journals Constitutional Change to Address Climate Change and Nonrenewable Energy Use

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2008
Author(s):  
Lynn McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Climate change, or climate breakdown, is arguably the greatest challenge we now face. The need to address it seriously has been widely accepted by all national political parties in Can- ada, if only lately and grudgingly. Yet Canada is far behind European countries in turning to low-carbon energy sources — we remain the world’s highest per capita energy user and car- bon emitter. We signed the Kyoto Protocol,1 but far from meeting our obligations under it, we have increased our greenhouse gas emissions. Our record is worse than even the Americans, who did not sign Kyoto.

Green Sukuk, Islamic Green Financing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Khairunnisa Musari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
High Diversity

As an archipelago with various natural resources and high diversity, Indonesia has great potential to be influenced by the negative impacts of climate change. As part of a responsible and committed global community to realize a low carbon and climate-resilient in the future, many of the programs being undertaken by Indonesia to address climate change mitigation and adaption also deliver important social benefits. One of them is issuing Green Sukuk. To reflect the implementation of Green Sukuk as Islamic green financing, Indonesia can be a lesson learned. The Green Sukuk issuance marked Indonesia as the world's first country to issue a Sovereign Green Sukuk and another milestone as the first to issue Retail Green Sukuk. This initiative has brought Indonesia got some awards by the global community. Therefore, this chapter addresses key topics to Indonesia's Sovereign Green Sukuk as sustainable green financing by focusing on three issues: (1) Green Sukuk framework, (2) Green Sukuk projects, (3) Green Sukuk report.

Speaking of Psychology: Psychologists Address Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Luna ◽  
Kim Mills ◽  
Brian Dixon ◽  
Marcel de Sousa ◽  
Christine Roland Levy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Address Climate Change

The Implementation Approach of LCCF Checklist in Development Control: Challenges for policymakers

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
T B A
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Development Control

Global warming, climate change is now affecting the world. The effort of the leaders to achieving the sustainable development is from New Urban Agenda (NUA), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and local level is local authorities.  SDG’s goal number 13 takes urgent action to combat climate change and its impact also SDG’s number 11 to sustainable cities and communities. The gap of this paper  Different cities face different challenges and issues. Local authorities will play a significant role in undertaking policy initiatives to combat carbon emissions of the city. Low Carbon Cities (LCC) is to reduce carbon emissions in all human activities in cities.  The objective of this paper is by applying the LCCF Checklist in planning permission for sustainable development. The methodology of this research is a mixed-method, namely quantitative and qualitative approach. The survey methods are by interview, questionnaire, and observation. Town planners are the subject matter expert in managing the planning permission submission for the development control of their areas. Descriptive statistical analysis will be used to show the willingness of the stakeholders, namely the developers and planning consultants in implementing of the LCCF. The contribution of this research will gauge readiness at the local authorities level. The findings of the LCCF checklist are identified as important in planning permission into the development control process. Surprisingly, that challenges and issues exist in multifaceted policy implementation the LCCF Checklist in a local authority. Finally based on Subang Jaya Municipal Councils, the existing approach in the application of the LCCF Checklist in the development control process will be useful for development control in a local authority towards sustainable development.  

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