scholarly journals Global Warming and the Green Paradox: A Review of Adverse Effects of Climate Policies

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick van der Ploeg ◽  
Cees Withagen
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Green Paradox ◽  
Climate Policies

Strategies to generate melatonin-enriched transgenic rice to respond to the adverse effects on rice production potentially caused by global warming

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-506
Author(s):  
Kyoungwhan Back ◽  
Dun-Xian Tan ◽  
Russel J Reiter
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Transgenic Rice ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
High Yield

Global warming is predicted to reduce the yield of rice, which feeds more than half of the world’s population. A rise in temperature will inevitably hamper rice production by causing drought and flooding. Melatonin has the capacity to ameliorate such adverse effects. Here, we propose multiple genetic means of producing melatonin-enriched, high-yield rice variants to adapt upcoming global warming. 

Aggressions of the Socio-Economic System on the Natural Capital

2017 ◽  
pp. 109-140
Author(s):  
Constanţa Popescu ◽  
Constantin Popescu ◽  
Maria Luiza Hrestic
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Acid Rain ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Vertebrate Species ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Almost All

Nearly 250 million years ago, the Earth was shaken by the amplest extinction known so far, which led to the extinction of up to 96% of all the marine species, 70% of the vertebrate species, and almost all the insects. This extinction affected the whole range of biodiversity so much. Nature took almost 10 million years to recover after this event. Life was really in danger on our planet at that moment, due to the dismal conditions that were created, and the current research shows that these dire conditions continued to occur, in the natural environment, after that, triggering numerous outbreaks that occurred for five to six million years following the initial crisis, triggered by the carbon rise and the repeated shortages of oxygen, the increased warming and other such adverse effects, which, once initiated, were uncontrollable and had disastrous effects. When life returned to normal and, gradually, after several million years, a new beginning was possible, the significant elements that caused the disaster - global warming, acid rain - sound strangely familiar to us today.

An Introduction to the Green Paradox: The Unintended Consequences of Climate Policies

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svenn Jensen ◽  
Kristina Mohlin ◽  
Karen Pittel ◽  
Thomas Sterner
Keyword(s):  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Green Paradox ◽  
Climate Policies

Aggressions of the Socio-Economic System on the Natural Capital

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-131
Author(s):  
Constanţa Popescu ◽  
Constantin Popescu ◽  
Maria Luiza Hrestic
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Acid Rain ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Vertebrate Species ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Almost All

Nearly 250 million years ago, the Earth was shaken by the amplest extinction known so far, which led to the extinction of up to 96% of all the marine species, 70% of the vertebrate species, and almost all the insects. This extinction affected the whole range of biodiversity so much. Nature took almost 10 million years to recover after this event. Life was really in danger on our planet at that moment, due to the dismal conditions that were created, and the current research shows that these dire conditions continued to occur, in the natural environment, after that, triggering numerous outbreaks that occurred for five to six million years following the initial crisis, triggered by the carbon rise and the repeated shortages of oxygen, the increased warming and other such adverse effects, which, once initiated, were uncontrollable and had disastrous effects. When life returned to normal and, gradually, after several million years, a new beginning was possible, the significant elements that caused the disaster - global warming, acid rain - sound strangely familiar to us today.

Global Warming, Climate Policy, and the Green Paradox

2015 ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Gheorghe H. Popescu ◽  
Elvira Nica
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Temperature Increase ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Green Paradox

Scholarship about the role of managed systems when considering the impacts of climate change, the environmental problem arising from polluting-resource use, the economic aspects of strategies to slow climate change, and the connection between climate change and economic growth has increased and consolidated, especially in recent years. The main objective of this chapter is to explore and describe the effects of climate policy on greenhouse gas emissions, the societal aspects of climate change, the technology-based determinants of green growth, and the productivity impacts of environmental quality. The results of the current chapter converge with prior research on the harmful results of climate change, reduced use of polluting inputs as a consequence of environmental policy, the prevailing governmental policies for fighting global warming, and measures to mitigate the temperature increase by reducing CO2 emissions.

The Molecular Farm

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
John Parrington
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Genome Editing ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
Modern Agriculture ◽  
The World

Despite many inequalities in the world, it is a testament to human technology that modern agriculture is able to feed the 8 billion people on the planet. However, recently extreme weather patterns linked to global warming have been having an adverse effect on crops and farmed animal production, leading to fears about whether agriculture can continue to feed all the humans on the planet. Genome editing looks set to revolutionise agriculture by making it possible to precisely edit the genomes of farm plants and animals rapidly and economically in an unprecedented way. Such editing could be used to create vegetables and meat with enhanced flavour or nutrition. It could also be used to create disease resistant plants and animals, and reduce the use of antibiotics or pesticides. Looking further into the future it might eventually be possible to use genome editing to reconfigure plants or animals to survive in increasingly extreme types of climates. Despite these positive ways of using genome editing in agriculture, concerns have been raised about the safety of food produced from genome edited animals and plants, and potential adverse effects on animal welfare. Another criticism is that genome editing may only benefit giant agribusiness companies, and not ordinary farmers and consumers. Yet against this criticism, one of the revolutionary aspects of genome editing is how easy and economical it is to use, which means that unlike previous GM technologies, there is no reason why it cannot be used in a local, sustainable, and accessible way.

scholarly journals Rural residents’ understanding and willingness to pay higher prices for mitigation against global warming in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 711-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genying Chang
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Multivariate Regression Analysis ◽  
Western China ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
The Cost

Purpose Studies addressing rural residents’ understanding of global warming and their willingness to pay higher prices to mitigate it are very limited. The purpose of this study is to examine the general understanding and attitudes of rural residents in China regarding global warming and their willingness to pay higher prices to mitigate it. Design/methodology/approach This study surveyed 1,185 rural residents in three counties of coastal, middle and western China. Multivariate regression analysis was conducted to reveal the relationships between the willingness to pay higher prices to mitigate global warming and influencing factors. Findings The majority of respondents had heard of global warming; however, their knowledge of the phenomenon and its causes was very limited. Most respondents admitted the likelihood of risks from global warming. Although most respondents thought they had an obligation to mitigate global warming, only a small percentage of them were willing to pay higher prices to address the problem; the unwillingness of respondents to pay higher prices to mitigate global warming may have been associated with their low income and perceived inability to handle the cost, externalisation of responsibility and causes and lack of knowledge of how to affect it. Originality/value This study examines the general understanding and attitudes of rural residents in China regarding global warming and their willingness to pay higher prices to mitigate it. The research is conducive to climate change communications and the implementation of climate policies in China’s rural areas.

scholarly journals Paris Agreement, Precautionary Principle and Human Rights: Zero Emissions in Two Decades?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Ekardt ◽  
Jutta Wieding ◽  
Anika Zorn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Temperature Limit ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Short Timeframe ◽  
The Eu

The Paris Agreement of December 2015 is subject to much criticism of being inadequate. This however neglects its very ambitious objective, which limits legally-binding global warming to 1.5 to 1.8 degrees in comparison to pre-industrial levels. This article shows, based on the overlap of unanswered questions for prognoses in natural science and the legal precautionary principle, that this objective indicates a legal imperative towards zero emissions globally within a short timeframe. Furthermore, it becomes apparent that policies need to be focused on achieving the 1.5-degree temperature limit. From a legal standpoint with regard to existential matters, only those policies are justified that are fit to contribute to reaching the temperature limit with high certainty, without overshoot, without leaving the 1.5 limit aside and without geoengineering measures, in contrast to the tendencies of the IPCC. This creates a big challenge even for the alleged forerunners of climate policies, Germany and the EU; because, according to the objective, the EU and Germany have to raise the level of ambition in their climate policies rapidly and drastically.

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