Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks (Climate Policy 8 (2), special issue, pp. 99–240)

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 819-821
Author(s):  
Catherine Pettengell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Climate Change Risks

scholarly journals A room with a view: a special issue with a special perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
Simone Borghesi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Climate Policies

AbstractThe present article describes the main insights deriving from the papers collected in this special issue which jointly provide a ‘room with a view’ on some of the most relevant issues in climate policy such as: the role of uncertainty, the distributional implications of climate change, the drivers and applications of decarbonizing innovation, the role of emissions trading and its interactions with companion policies. While looking at different issues and from different angles, all papers share a similar attention to policy aspects and implications, especially in developing countries. This is particularly important to evaluate whether and to what extent the climate policies adopted thus far in developed countries can be replicated in emerging economies.

scholarly journals Lessons for climate policy from behavioral biases towards COVID-19 and climate change risks

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 105214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Botzen ◽  
Sem Duijndam ◽  
Pieter van Beukering
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Climate Change Risks

The Challenges of Planetary Bandwagoning

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Wapner
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
International Community ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Climate Negotiations ◽  
Effective Manner

This article explores a paradox at the heart of climate bandwagoning. Numerous actors have hitched their efforts to climate policy formation in an effort either to advance their own interests or genuinely contribute to addressing this most urgent global dilemma or both. At the same time, the large number of stakeholders complicates climate negotiations as exceeding numbers of actors bring related but tangential issues into discussions and demand to be heard. The international community is thus faced with an almost existential situation: to address climate change in an effective manner requires nearly everyone in the room (regime bandwagoning); with everyone in the room, however, less is accomplished (regime sclerosis). This article explains such a paradox by stepping back from the cases presented in this special issue, and bringing into high relief the lineaments of regime congestion as they manifest in global climate affairs, and outlining the promises and perils involved.

scholarly journals Riskscapes and the socio-spatial challenges of climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Anna Davies ◽  
Gregory Hooks ◽  
Janelle Knox-Hayes ◽  
Raoul S Liévanos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Climate Change Risks ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Abstract Anthropogenic climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of the physical threats to human and planetary wellbeing. However, climate change risks, and their interaction with other “riskscapes”, remain understudied. Riskscapes encompass different viewpoints on the threat of loss across space, time, individuals and collectives. This Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society enhances our understanding of the multifaceted and interlocking dimensions of climate change and riskscapes. It brings together rigorous and critical international scholarship across diverse realms on inquiry under two, interlinked, themes: (i) governance and institutional responses and (ii) vulnerabilities and inequalities. The contributors offer a forceful reminder that when considering climate change, social justice principles cannot be appended after the fact. Climate change adaptation and mitigation pose complex and interdependent social and ethical dilemmas that will need to be explicitly confronted in any activation of “Green New Deal” strategies currently being developed internationally. Such critical insights about the layered, unequal and institutional dimensions of risks are of paramount import when considering other riskscapes pertaining to conflict and war, displaced people and pandemics like the 2019–2020 global COVID-19 pandemic.

Implications of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Russia: Assessment and Forecast

2011 ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
B. Porfiriev ◽  
V. Kattsov
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Climate Fluctuations ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Scientific Organizations ◽  
Climate Change Risks ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Macroeconomic Implications

Comprehensive assessment of macroeconomic implications of climate change in Russia by 2030 including the authors original evaluations and forecasts is provided in the article. The weather and climate fluctuations impact on dynamics and qualitative indicators of selective industries of the Russian economy is contemplated in depth. Key directions and a set of measures of their adaptation to this impact along with those for reducing the climate change risks to the national economy are analyzed. It is argued that including the climate change factor into the development policy and industry and services modernization projects in Russia, particularly its consideration while introducing technological innovations are both necessary and economically effective. The role of science and scientific organizations as principal institutions and drivers of adaptation of the Russian economy and society as a whole to climate change is especially emphasized.

On Climate Change Risks of Long-Term Socio-Economic Development in Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
N.E. Terentiev
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Climate Change Risks ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Management Policies

Based on the latest data, paper investigates the dynamics of global climate change and its impact on economic growth in the long-term. The notion of climate risk is considered. The main directions of climate risk management policies are analyzed aimed, first, at reducing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions through technological innovation and structural economic shifts; secondly, at adaptation of population, territories and economic complexes to the irreparable effects of climate change. The problem of taking into account the phenomenon of climate change in the state economic policy is put in the context of the most urgent tasks of intensification of long-term socio-economic development and parrying strategic challenges to the development of Russia.

The Controllability Precautionary Principle: Justification of a Climate Policy Goal Under Uncertainty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugen Pissarskoi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
The Precautionary Principle ◽  
Climate Change Policies

How can we reasonably justify a climate policy goal if we accept that only possible consequences from climate change are known? Precautionary principles seem to offer promising guidelines for reasoning in such epistemic situations. This chapter presents two versions of the precautionary principle (PP) and defends one of them as morally justifiable. However, it argues that current versions of the PP do not allow discrimination between relevant climate change policies. Therefore, the chapter develops a further version of the PP, the Controllability Precautionary Principle (CPP), and defends its moral plausibility. The CPP incorporates the following idea: in a situation when the possible outcomes of the available actions cannot be ranked with regard to their value, the choice between available options for action should rest on the comparison of how well decision makers can control the processes of the implementation of the available strategies.

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