Bonn meetings will be key in global climate deal

Global Climate ◽

Carbon Markets ◽

Carbon Pricing ◽

Content Type ◽

The Core ◽

Climate Treaty ◽

Change Mitigation ◽

Strong Agreement

Significance The most important climate summit since the 1997 Kyoto gathering will open in Paris at end-November, with the goal of producing the first universal binding climate treaty ever drafted. Preparatory talks are progressing slowly on the core document negotiated among countries. However, the recent announcement of the first-ever official climate commitment from China and the growing push for carbon pricing are positive signals that the Paris summit could result not only in an agreement, but in a significant one. Impacts French organisers will accelerate negotiations, set to be intensive, as the first Bonn meeting did not produce the expected result. China's official commitment to climate change mitigation could pave the way for a strong agreement in Paris. Carbon pricing will be discussed and progress in harmonising carbon markets is not excluded anymore.

Identifying integrated options for agricultural climate change mitigation

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management ◽

10.1108/ijccsm-09-2012-0053 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 192-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

John Tzilivakis ◽

Kathleen Lewis ◽

Andrew Green ◽

Douglas Warner

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Effective Means ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Management Options ◽

Content Type ◽

Mitigation Options ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Environmental Objectives ◽

Purpose – In order to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it is essential that all industry sectors have the appropriate knowledge and tools to contribute. This includes agriculture, which is considered to contribute about a third of emissions globally. This paper reports on one such tool: IMPACCT: Integrated Management oPtions for Agricultural Climate Change miTigation. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – IMPACCT focuses on GHGs, carbon sequestration and associated mitigation options. However, it also attempts to include information on economic and other environmental impacts in order to provide a more holistic perspective. The model identifies mitigation options, likely economic impacts and any synergies and trade-offs with other environmental objectives. The model has been applied on 22 case study farms in seven Member States. Findings – The tool presents some useful concepts for developing carbon calculators in the future. It has highlighted that calculators need to evolve from simply calculating emissions to identifying cost-effective and integrated emissions reduction options. Practical implications – IMPACCT has potential to become an effective means of provided targeted guidance, as part of a broader knowledge transfer programme based on an integrated suite of guidance, tools and advice delivered via different media. Originality/value – IMPACCT is a new model that demonstrates how to take a more integrated approach to mitigating GHGs on farms across Europe. It is a holistic carbon calculator that presents mitigation options in the context other environmental and economic objectives in the search for more sustainable methods of food production.

The underappreciated potential of peatlands in global climate change mitigation strategies

Nature Communications ◽

10.1038/s41467-018-03406-6 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 101

Author(s):

J. Leifeld ◽

L. Menichetti

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

PERAN TEGAKAN SENGON DI HUTAN TANAMAN INDUSTRI DALAM MITIGASI PERUBAHAN IKLIM GLOBAL (The Role of Sengon’s Stand at Forest Plantation in Global Climate Change Mitigation)

HUTAN TROPIKA ◽

10.36873/jht.v14i2.1149 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 71-79

Author(s):

Admin JHT

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Carbon Stock ◽

Global Climate ◽

Co2 Uptake ◽

Biomass Carbon ◽

Forest Plantation ◽

Carbon Dioxide Uptake ◽

ABSTRACTThis research aims to estimate the biomass, carbon storage, carbon dioxide uptake andoxygen produced by sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria (L.) Nielsen) stand aged 9, 11and 13 years in IUPHHK-HTI PT Parwata Rimba, Central Kalimantan. Estimated ofbiomass, carbon stock, CO2 uptake and Oxygen produced using allometric equations.The results showed that the storage of sengon standing biomass aged 9,11 and 13 yearsranged from 110.71 to 200.94 tons/ha, carbon stock ranged from 52.03 to 94.44 tons C/ha, CO2 uptake ranged from 190.79 to 259.13 tons CO2/ha and Oxygen produced around138.75 to 251.84 tons O2/ha. The total of biomass, carbon stock, CO2 uptake and Oxygenproduced by sengon stands at forest plantations are large enough to have an importantrole in global climate change mitigation in the forestry sector.Keywords: biomassa, climate change, forest plantation, karbon, sengon

Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy

Nature Climate Change ◽

10.1038/s41558-018-0230-x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 699-703 ◽

Cited By ~ 83

Author(s):

Tomoko Hasegawa ◽

Shinichiro Fujimori ◽

Petr Havlík ◽

Hugo Valin ◽

Benjamin Leon Bodirsky ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Mitigation Policy ◽

Climate Change Mitigation Policy ◽

Demoralizing: integrating J.D. Peters’ communication “chasm” with Niklas Luhmann’s (1989) ecological communication to analyze climate change mitigation inaction

Kybernetes ◽

10.1108/k-11-2020-0770 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Jacob A. Miller

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Social Systems ◽

Binary Codes ◽

Social Implication ◽

Content Type ◽

The Us ◽

Climate Change Mitigation Policy ◽

Ecological Communication ◽

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the US society’s insignificant mitigation of climate change using Niklas Luhmann’s (1989) autopoietic social systems theory in ecological communication. Specifically, the author’s analysis falls within the context of Luhmann re-moralized while focusing on particular function systems’ binary codes and their repellence of substantive US climate change mitigation policy across systems. Design/methodology/approach The author achieves this purpose by resituating Luhmann’s conception of evolution to forgo systems teleology and better contextualize the spatial-temporal scale of climate change; reinforcing complexity reduction and differentiation by integrating communication and media scholar John D. Peters’s (1999) “communication chasm” concept as one mechanism through which codes sustain over time; and applying these integrated concepts to prominent the US climate change mitigation attempts. Findings The author concludes that climate change mitigation efforts are the amalgamation of the systems’ moral communications. Mitigation efforts have relegated themselves to subsystems of the ten major systems given the polarizing nature of their predominant care/harm moral binary. Communication chasms persist because these moral communications cannot both adhere to the systems’ binary codes and communicate the climate crisis’s urgency. The more time that passes, the more codes force mitigation organizations, activist efforts and their moral communications to adapt and sacrifice their actions to align with the encircling systems’ code. Social implications In addition to the conceptual contribution, the social implication is that by identifying how and why climate change mitigation efforts are subsumed by the larger systems and their codes, climate change activists and practitioners can better tool their tactics to change the codes at the heart of the systems if serious and substantive climate change mitigation is to prevail. Originality/value To the author’s knowledge, there has not been an integration of a historical communication concept into, and sociological application of, ecological communication in the context of climate change mitigation.

A CGE Analysis of the Effects of Global Climate Change Mitigation Policies on India

Climate Change and Environmental Concerns ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5487-5.ch029 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 573-590

Author(s):

Basanta K. Pradhan ◽

Joydeep Ghosh

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Carbon Tax ◽

Global Climate ◽

Value Added ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Mitigation Policy ◽

Change Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Policies

This paper compares the effects of a global carbon tax and a global emissions trading regime on India using a dynamic CGE framework. The sensitivity of the results to the value of a crucial elasticity parameter is also analysed. The results suggest that the choice of the mitigation policy is relatively unimportant from an efficiency perspective. However, the choice of the mitigation policy and the value of the substitution elasticity between value added and energy were found to be important determinants of welfare effects. Global climate change mitigation policies have the potential for promoting low carbon and inclusive growth in India.