Civil Society Representative

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Baillie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Impact

In our increasingly globalized world, civilians feel most acutely the impact of conflicts and failures of interstate regulation. Modern conflict has been characterized by states and nonstate actors targeting civilians. One need only look to the offenses committed in Syria and South Sudan to understand the immense toll those conflicts have taken on civilian lives. In addition, failures in interstate regulation, particularly around business practices and climate change, disproportionately affect the world's most poor and vulnerable, as political and economic interests take precedence over the rights of civilians.

scholarly journals Communication, Negotiation, and Influence at International Climate Change Meetings and Summits

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Wessler ◽  
Julia Lück ◽  
Antal Wozniak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

The annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences, officially called Conferences of the Parties (COPs), are the main drivers of media attention to climate change around the world. Even more so than the Rio and Rio+20 “Earth Summits” (1992 and 2012) and the meetings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the COPs offer multiple access points for the communicative engagement of all kinds of stakeholders. COPs convene up to 20,000 people in one place for two weeks, including national delegations, civil society and business representatives, scientific organizations, representatives from other international organizations, as well as journalists from around the world. While intergovernmental negotiation under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) constitutes the core of COP business, these multifunctional events also offer arenas for civil society mobilization, economic lobbying, as well as expert communication and knowledge transfer. The media image of the COPs emerges as a product of distinct networks of coproduction constituted by journalists, professional communicators from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and national delegations. Production structures at the COPs are relatively globalized with uniform access rules for journalists from all over the world, a few transnational news agencies dominating distribution of both basic information and news visuals, and dense localized interaction between public relations (PR) professionals and journalists. Photo opportunities created by globally coordinated environmental NGOs meet the selection of journalists much better than the visual strategies pursued by delegation spokespeople. This gives NGOs the upper hand in the visual framing contest, whereas in textual framing NGOs are sidelined and national politicians clearly dominate media coverage. The globalized production environment leads to relatively similar patterns of basic news framing in national media coverage of the COPs that reflect overarching ways of approaching the topic: through a focus on problems and victims; a perspective on civil society demands and solutions; an emphasis on conflict in negotiations; or a focus on the benefits of clean energy production. News narratives, on the other hand, give journalists from different countries more leeway in adapting COP news to national audiences’ presumed interests and preoccupations. Even after the adoption of a new global treaty at COP21 in Paris in 2015 that specifies emission reduction targets for all participating countries, the annual UN Climate Change Conferences are likely to remain in the media spotlight. Future research could look more systematically at the impact of global civil society and media in monitoring the national contributions to climate change mitigation introduced in the Paris Agreement and shoring up even more ambitious commitments needed to reach the goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius as compared to pre-industrial levels.

scholarly journals A Sustainable environmental change and ESG initiatives by the manufacturing and others service Industries during COVID19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 889 (1) ◽  
pp. 012081
Author(s):  
Monika Mittal ◽  
Manoj Pareek ◽  
Shubham Sharma ◽  
Jasgurpreet Chohan ◽  
Raman Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Investing ◽  
Collective Risk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Future Business

Abstract Covid-19 has improved the economy’s ESG plan. The ESG rating of an industry is crucial for stakeholders and will influence future business practices. ESG is commonly understood to refer to a set of criteria for making long-term investments in the areas of the environment, social welfare, and governance. Climate change is a systemic concern, and governments, companies, and society are increasingly determined to meet it. Climate change, according to the ESG, is the world’s most complicated challenge, posing collective risk and ambiguity to society. The impact of ESG elements and climate risk in the insurance business is investigated in this research. The research will also look into how insurers are responding to climate change. The research will also look into how insurers are pursuing climate-friendly activities such as creating green jobs, supporting socially responsible investing, and prioritizing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and commercial sustainability in their operations. As a result, the study’s major recommendation is that potential clients and insurers increase their horizons of ESG risk awareness.

scholarly journals GUGATAN WARGA NEGARA (STUDI KASUS: GERAKAN SAMARINDA MENGGUGAT

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Rizkita Alamanda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
Assessment Report ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Group I ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
The Impact

AbstrakPerubahan iklim bukan lagi menjadi sebuah omong kosong, kenyataan bahwa bumi semakin panas dan ancaman atas dampak perubahan iklim telah menjadi nyata. Pergeseran musim mengakibatkan kegagalan dalam bercocok tanam, kenaikan permukaan air laut mengancam keberadaan negara-negara kepulauan kecil. Banjir dan kekeringan adalah sebagian kecil dari dampak perubahan iklim yang telah nyata dirasakan. Bumi semakin panas, para ahli dalam Laporan IPCC WG I AR 5 semakin yakin bahwa penyebab perubahan iklim adalah akibat aktivitas manusia. Pertanyaan yang kemudian muncul adalah siapa yang bertanggung jawab atas kerusakan dan kerugian yang diderita akibat dampak perubahan iklim? Di Indonesia, Gugatan Warga Negara menjadi salah satu bentuk litigasi yang menjadi alternatif penyelesaian dampak perubahan iklim yang dirasakan oleh masyarakat. Abstract Climate change is not longer became an issue, we are facing the fact that earth is getting warmer and the impact of climate change is become real. The season changed, and affected the crops failure. The raising sea level threatening the existence of small islands. Flood and drought are simply the several impact of climate change that has been perceived. Earth is getting warmer, the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report of Working Group I ensure the main cause of climate change is from anthropogenic activities. The question that arose later is who will be responsible for any damage of the climate change impact? Citizen Law Suit in Indonesia has become one of litigation form that can be an alternative solution of climate change impacts in civil society.

scholarly journals The Role of Global Civil Society at the Local Level in Climate Change Mitigation: A Case Study of Earth Hour’s Activities in Malang

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Najamuddin Khairur Rijal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Change Mitigation

This study examines the role of global civil society at the local level in climate change mitigation. Climate change issue is one of the global issues that is responded at the local level, as the impact of the problem concerns the universal livelihood of the world’s population. This study focuses on Earth Hour’s activities in the Malang region as a part of a global civil society. This research uses global civil society and its role in environmental governance as the analytical framework. The data are collected through documentation studies and interviews. The results show that Earth Hour Malang’s activities have three important roles in climate change mitigation efforts, namely information-based role, providing policy inputs to the government, and performing operational functions.

The Impact of Climate Change on Global Entrepreneurial Activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 446-462
Author(s):  
Mkhothi Tshabalala ◽  
Andrisha Beharry Ramraj ◽  
Jayrusha Ramasamy-Gurayah
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
The World ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact

In this era of climate change, there has been urgent calls for entrepreneurs to adopt sustainable business practices. Entrepreneurs need to seek to increase their production efficiency. Entrepreneurs have looked at sustainability as a solution to improve value for society, the environment, and financial gains for their businesses. Businesses around the globe are embracing entrepreneurial business sustainability with the aim of increasing their triple bottom line. Climate change has challenged not only governments across the world but also businesses. Businesses around the globe are embracing entrepreneurial business sustainability with the aim of increasing their triple bottom line. Climate change has challenged not only governments across the world but also businesses, and as a result, efforts have been made by various stakeholders such as the United Nations to assist countries in mitigating the consequences of climate change on economic, social, and ecological dimensions.

scholarly journals Standards Practical Tools in Dealing with Climate Change

Eksergi ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Biatna Dulbert T
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Good Energy ◽  
Tackle Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Good ◽  
Product Recycling ◽  
The Impact

Drastic climate change is becoming an increasingly serious threat to the survival of living beings on this planet. Various effects have been caused by climate change such as rising temperatures, floods, rising sea level, the uncertain season and other radical changes. Other than forest destruction, as well as industry and transportation use fossil fuels contributed in exacerbating climate change. Indonesia, have adopted identical to the four Green House Gases (GHG) into the SNI via reprints. As a developing country and the condition of Indonesia's forests and peatland in the tropics, it is more easy going deforestation and degradation. Indonesia is concentrated to develop standards in deforestation field based decreased functions of tropical rain forests as carbon sinks are big enough, not to mention the peatland carbon stocks that have high potential around 36 Gton CO2 from 22 million hectares only. The development of ISO standards in measurements and calculations the Greenhouse Effect, Product Recycling, Promoting Environmental good, Energy Efficiency, Consumer Aware Environmental, very useful and contribute to tackle climate change significantly with the implementation of international standards. The most important thing now is how far the destruction of nature caused by human habits that are not environmentally friendly. Increasing understanding about the scale of change needed to tackle global warming, government, business and civil society should be able to perform the necessary steps and face the need to work in partnership to address such a change. In the long term the benefits of addressing climate change will far outweigh the impact costs . But in the short term, governments, business, and civil society will be more willing to bear those costs if they know their counterparts and competitors use standards, as a practical tool in dealing with climate change.

scholarly journals Disaster Displacement and Its Linkage to Climate Change Litigation in Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Klaaren
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
National Development ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Climate Change Governance

It has been observed that the scholarship on African responses to climate change law lags behind the reality. This are however some recent efforts to address this gap in the literature. Some recent work has carefully sketched the national development of framework laws in Kenya and Uganda and, taking a pan-African albeit Anglophone perspective, has also addressed the ways in which such national laws might work with and influence each other. This gap is replicated in another corner of climate change scholarship, the literature on climate change litigation. This is unfortunate since action by civil society through national judiciaries often has real impact. For instance, the impact of the provisions in Kenya’s climate change legislation were significantly strengthened by the purposive interpretation given those provisions in Kenya’s most celebrated instance of climate change litigation, the Save Lamu matter. And courts are recognized to play a role in multi-level climate change governance, in part by providing a platform for transnational climate change litigation. Concerned to address these gaps, this article explores the material and conceptual linkages between disaster displacement and climate change with particular attention to litigation and to legal support structures. This article assumes a certain degree of familiarity with climate change litigation and its literature. It proceeds to explore and present a specific cross-cutting perspective, for which there is only modest treatment in the existing literature. This is the linkage of disaster displacement litigation (and legal responses) to climate change litigation. The article outlines and briefly examines a short but intense period of litigation regarding a disaster-induced displacement in South Africa which has not been widely discussed or attended to anywhere in the scholarly literature. Beyond demonstrating the gap between local institutional preparedness and the evident level of risk from disasters at all scales including those associated with climate change, the case study investigated here shows the importance of thinking about the local with the global, particularly with respect to the linkage between displacement and climate change.

scholarly journals МЕТОДОЛОГІЯ ОЦІНЮВАННЯ РІВНЯ ЕКОНОМІЧНОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА БЕЗ УРАХУВАННЯ БЕЗПЕКИ ЙОГО СТЕЙКХОЛДЕРІВ

2020 ◽  
Vol 139 (5) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Євгенія Володимирівна Міщук
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The One ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Security Indicators ◽  
The Impact

The modern literature review has identified a certain research gap in developing an approach to assess the level of enterprise economic security that would not take into account the impact of its stakeholders security, on the one hand, but would provide it, if necessary, on the other – to combine both assessment methods. The purpose of this study is to improve the methodology for assessing the level of enterprise economic security beyond the context of considering its stakeholders security perspective. To attain the objectives set in the study, the following research methods have been employed: generalization – to explore different economic concepts and approaches to view the object of study and develop conclusions behind the content analysis of primary sources; analysis and synthesis – to interpret the key research categories and specify the economic security indicators. It argued that for assessing the level of economic security, from analytical perspective, the EBT deficit indicator (earnings before tax) seems more appropriate, since it offers all the advantages of net profit, but at the same time is characterized by the benefit of its comparability. It is suggested to calculate the EBT value deficiency as the amount of lost profit before tax, which is insufficient to ensure that the indicators of each component of the enterprise economic security are equal to their reference or established values. The study also specifies the economic security indicators subject to its decomposition, which is considered in terms of company current economic interests security and is presented by a hierarchical structure, as well as the overall enterprise security in the strategic period. Moreover, a special focus is placed that any stakeholders group has to be excluded from the above security hierarchy. The study offers an indicator to assess the level of enterprise economic security and an appropriate scale for transforming the obtained values into linguistic terms. To evaluate economic security in the strategic period, the use of the company cash value added indicator is suggested. The developed approach does not assume cost assessment needed to ensure stakeholders security which allows measuring the so called net economic security. The application of this approach in business practices of company structural units (including economic security services) will contribute to enhancing management decisions effectiveness, since the information available through the use of the proposed approach will provide an objective background to evaluate the effects from a number of activities against violation of the enterprise economic interests without taking into account the costs for ensuring the stakeholders security.

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