Courts must provide climate change leadership in the absence of law-making progress

Climate change is increasingly impacting health, and health care is contributing to climate change through carbon emissions. Nurses can help mitigate climate change and its effects through leadership development initiatives to expand the impact of the efforts of a single person by activating others. This article describes one such nurse-led leadership development project. The intervention adapted a workshop series curriculum for faith community audiences to a health professional audience. The program gave participants the ability to assess their assets, understand the psychology of communication of climate change, and design appropriately-scaled actions to help mitigate climate change. The program consisted of three in-person workshop sessions plus bi-weekly individual consultations with participants. The seven participants included physicians, nurses, physician and nurse educators, a public health professional, and a veterinary medicine student. The workshops included content on communicating about climate change, crafting a public narrative/storytelling, and tools and methods for organizing in the climate movement. Participants completed action plans including a broad range of leadership efforts as part of the intervention; all participants completed at least the first step of their action plan during the program period. Qualitative interviews highlighted facets of participants' experiences. Nurses and other health professionals are leading the way in mitigating climate change; leadership development programs such as this are one way of taking effective climate action.

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Being the change for climate change leadership

Strategic Direction ◽

10.1108/sd.2008.05624fad.003 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 24 (6) ◽

Author(s):

P. Walker

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Change Leadership

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Learn to Lead: Developing Curricula that Foster Climate Change Leaders

Education and Climate Change - International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-57927-2_2 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 45-83

Author(s):

David Rhodes ◽

Margaret Wang

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Secondary Education ◽

Tertiary Education ◽

Deep Understanding ◽

Change Leadership ◽

Peace Building ◽

Implementation Plan ◽

Whole School ◽

Leadership Curriculum ◽

Whole School Approach

AbstractIn this chapter, we identify the need for a curriculum that is intended to not only enable educators to teach about climate change, but to also foster leaders who can engage in policy analysis and civic action related to the issue of climate change. Unlike Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-57927-2_3, which details a whole-school approach, we have specifically focused our attention on developing a curriculum with an associated implementation plan since the ability of teachers to build transferable leadership skills in younger generations are integral to any larger reform initiative. Ultimately, the efficacy of the curriculum is enhanced by a more holistic approach to the prioritization of climate change action in the context of schools and broader education systems, so a synthesis of approaches is recommended.The Climate Change Leadership Curriculum was designed in collaboration with the Arava Institute (AI), an organization in Israel that brings together Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians and international students from outside the region to engage in environmental and peace-building education. The work of AI is specific to tertiary education, so our initiative to build a climate change leadership curriculum constitutes an attempt to expand the reach of the mission and pedagogy of AI to encompass secondary education. The implementation plan also involves leveraging the network of AI to find partners for implementing the curriculum. The fact that there are AI alumni who work in secondary education opened possibilities for dissemination of the curriculum in collaboration with teachers who have a deep understanding of the pedagogy. As teachers integrate the curriculum into their particular contexts, our plan was to not only support them in the implementation, but to also solicit feedback to continually improve the resources and identify the most effective ways to provide support. This will enable us to make the curriculum accessible to teachers from diverse backgrounds in a wide variety of contexts, inside and outside of the target region.

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Climate change adaptation in the management of public buildings: an Indonesian context

International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation ◽

10.1108/ijbpa-02-2018-0019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 140-162

Author(s):

Jose Arif Lukito ◽

Connie Susilawati ◽

Ashantha Goonetilleke

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Decision Making ◽

Community Engagement ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Asset Management ◽

Policy Development ◽

Change Leadership ◽

Public Buildings ◽

Data Set ◽

Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a strategy to integrate climate change adaptation (CCA) in public asset management (PAM) in Indonesia. This paper focusses on public buildings as part of a public asset.Design/methodology/approachAs an archipelagic country, Indonesia is very vulnerable to sea-level rise as a result of climate change. The outcomes of a qualitative analysis of interviews with relevant stakeholders were used for the development of the CCA framework in an Indonesian context.FindingsThe study identified that the integration of CCA in PAM in Indonesia requires the incorporation of nine key elements. These are as follows: recognition of climate change; risk management and insurance schemes for assets; integrated asset management and planning; asset use and knowledge; reliable, accessible and understandable data set on climate change; leadership, government commitment and incentives; involvement of research and private entities; community engagement; and coordination of relevant agencies.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper informed only the key elements required on the development of framework which integrate CCA in PAM.Practical implicationsThe integration of CCA to a PAM framework will support the development of policies and procedures for better-informed decisions.Social implicationsThe framework increases opportunities for stakeholders and community engagement in policy development and decision making in relation to CCA for public assets.Originality/valueThis paper synthesises CCA and PAM using knowledge from the three levels of governments in Australia and Indonesia. CCA and PAM groups work separately in Indonesia and integration will reduce climate change risks and improve decision making in PAM.

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U.N. Chief Seeks More Climate Change Leadership

Physics Today ◽

10.1063/pt.5.021687 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Change Leadership

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Confronting Climate Change: Leadership and Action in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty

Environmental Leadership: A Reference Handbook ◽

10.4135/9781452218601.n54 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 511-518

Author(s):

Sarah F. Trainor

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Change Leadership ◽

Scientific Uncertainty ◽

The Face

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The Climate Group: advancing climate change leadership

Corporate Responses to Climate Change: Achieving Emissions Reductions through R ◽

10.9774/gleaf.978-1-909493-80-3_11 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 139-150

Author(s):

Jim Walker

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Change Leadership

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Non-state Actors in the International Climate Change Regulatory Framework

Helsinki Law Review ◽

10.33344/vol14iss1pp88-104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 88-104

Author(s):

Sina Bergmann

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Governance Model ◽

Nationally Determined Contributions ◽

International Climate ◽

State Actors ◽

Law Making ◽

International Climate Change

Global climate governance is multilateral and involves both state and non-state actors. This study sets to identify the ways in which non-state actors can access and participate in the international climate change regime under the UNFCCC and the 2015 Paris Agreement and to evaluate how they can influence law-making processes and outcomes under the agreements. The study further provides recommendations on how the involvement of non-state actors can be improved under the agreements. The study emphasizes that under the UNFCCC, non-state actors have an important role in acting as intermediaries under the orchestration governance model and in participating to the Conference of Parties and under the Paris Agreement, by exerting influence on state’s nationally determined contributions. The study suggests that the role of non-state actors in formulating nationally determined contributions and in participating to the Conference of Parties should be further formalised and that the NAZCA portal should be improved.

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