scholarly journals The role of discourses in governing forests to combat climate change

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Dan Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Combat Climate Change

scholarly journals Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic to combat climate change: comparing drivers of individual action in global crises

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijn H. C. Meijers ◽  
Christin Scholz ◽  
Ragnheiður “Heather” Torfadóttir ◽  
Anke Wonneberger ◽  
Marko Markov
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Governmental Policy ◽  
Personal Threat ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Policy Perceptions ◽  
Behavior Change Theories

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are two global crises that require collective action. Yet, the inertia typically associated with behavior change to limit climate change stands in contrast to the speed associated with behavior change to stop the spread of COVID-19. Identifying the roots of these differences can help us stimulate climate-friendly behaviors. We assessed the extent to which a number of theory-based drivers underlie behaviors aiming to counter COVID-19 and climate change with an online survey (N = 534). We focused on the role of a number of drivers derived from prominent behavior change theories and meta-analyses in the field, namely, personal threat, threat to close others, threat to vulnerable others, fear, participative efficacy, injunctive and descriptive social norms, and governmental policy perceptions. We investigated (1) what drivers people perceived as most important to engage in behaviors that limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change and (2) the strength of the associations between these drivers and engaging in behaviors that limit the spread of the pandemic and climate change. Results highlight three key drivers for climate change action: changing perceptions of governmental policy and perceptions of threat to close others and priming participative efficacy beliefs.

Industry: Turning the Titanic

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-154
Author(s):  
Deborah Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies

Chapter 5 examines the structure and role of the oil industry and details the various actors that make up the industry. It argues that self-reported greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are not comprehensive or trustworthy. There are too many ways that companies can game emissions reports. Different companies are surveyed to separate the leaders from the laggards. The investigation reaches beyond multinational and national oil and gas companies and touches upon industry actors in the wings: investors, industry advisers, traders, and certification agents. Efforts to establish industry benchmarks are laid out. The chapter recommends rethinking self-regulation and concludes with a challenging premise about whether the goal is to defeat or partner with the oil and gas industry to effectively combat climate change.

scholarly journals The Role of Local Government in the Drive for Sustainable Development Public Policies. An Analytical Framework Based on Institutional Capacities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5978
Author(s):  
Miquel Salvador ◽  
David Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
City Council ◽  
Combat Climate Change

The role of local governments in promoting policies to combat climate change is critical. In order to play this role, local administrations must have different capacities that allow them to analyze, manage and transform their environment through public policies. This article aims to contribute to the academic debate on the role of local governments in the articulation of climate change policies and sustainable development. The proposal combines a conceptual and analytical contribution, which is illustrated by means of a case study analysis. At the conceptual and analytical level, the article proposes a review of the contributions from the perspective of public policies and organizational management models in order to introduce an analytical framework based on four capacities: strategic, analytical, managerial and collaborative. This framework is developed based on the design of a strategy to measure the existence of these capabilities in a given local government by means of specific indicators. This analytical framework is applied through a case study of Barcelona City Council and its policies to combat climate change and promote sustainable development. The results of the analysis highlight the importance of the combined action of the four management capacities mentioned as a precondition for the articulation of this type of policies at the local government level.

scholarly journals Effects of Forestry on Carbon Emissions in China: Evidence From a Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaijun Li ◽  
Zouheir Mighri ◽  
Suleman Sarwar ◽  
Chen Wei
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Pollution Reduction ◽  
Spatial Durbin Model ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Total Forest Area ◽  
Good Policy ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model

Research has proved the significance of forests in controlling carbon emissions, however, our research sheds light on the management of existing forests to combat climate change. To examine the role of forestation and forest investment activities, dynamic spatial techniques are used for 30 provinces of China. The results suggest that forest investment and management not only reduce carbon locally but also in neighboring provinces. Furthermore, the findings of the current study confirmed that forest investment is the most viable practice to control carbon emissions in China instead of just increasing total forest area. Reforms regarding the management of forests would be a good policy for both pollution reduction and employment generation.

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.

The Role of Late-Night Infotainment Comedy in Communicating Climate Change Consensus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward John Roy Clarke ◽  
Anna Klas ◽  
Joshua Stevenson ◽  
Emily Jane Kothe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Diverse Audience

Climate change is a politically-polarised issue, with conservatives less likely than liberals to perceive it as human-caused and consequential. Furthermore, they are less likely to support mitigation and adaptation policies needed to reduce its impacts. This study aimed to examine whether John Oliver’s “A Mathematically Representative Climate Change Debate” clip on his program Last Week Tonight polarised or depolarised a politically-diverse audience on climate policy support and behavioural intentions. One hundred and fifty-nine participants, recruited via Amazon MTurk (94 female, 64 male, one gender unspecified, Mage = 51.07, SDage = 16.35), were presented with either John Oliver’s climate change consensus clip, or a humorous video unrelated to climate change. Although the climate change consensus clip did not reduce polarisation (or increase it) relative to a control on mitigation policy support, it resulted in hyperpolarisation on support for adaptation policies and increased climate action intentions among liberals but not conservatives.

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