Climate Change and Global Fisheries Management: Linking Issues to Protect Ecosystems or to Save Political Interests?

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Axelrod
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Regional Fisheries Management Organizations

This article explores the conditions under which regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) adopt climate actions. I test a series of hypotheses to explain when RFMOs move beyond their classic management approaches—assignment of property rights, catch limits, and gear restrictions—to include climate change in their research and management plans. I introduce a new data set that compares fisheries-climate linkages since 1992 in all available RFMO annual reports and meeting minutes. The analysis reveals a series of patterns surrounding linkage politics in RFMOs. Importantly, this study finds that climate linkages in RFMOs do not simply follow scientific knowledge or regional climate vulnerability. Instead, climate action coincides with member country efforts to avoid catch regulations, and secretariat efforts to exhibit organizational relevance.

scholarly journals Cascading impacts of climate change and the rights of children in Africa: A reflection on the principle of intergenerational equity

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongedzayi Fambasayi ◽  
Michael Addaney
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Intergenerational Equity ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

SUMMARY This article explores the manner in which climate action at the African regional level protects and promotes children's rights with considerations being had to the principle of intergenerational equity. It establishes that while the concept of intergenerational equity is entrenched in the international and African regional climate change framework for the protection of children, neither the Convention on the Rights of the Child nor the African Children's Charter mentions the concept. However, CRC and the African Children's Charter oblige states to take into consideration the views of children and protect their best interests in climate action (to ensure intergenerational equity) and in achieving a sustainable future. Using a doctrinal research method, the article examines the regional legal and institutional responses to the cascading impacts of climate change and how they safeguard children's rights to a sustainable future. It proceeds to critically analyse child rights-responsive provisions in the African Children's Charter that could potentially enhance the utility of the principle of intergenerational equity in the context of climate action in Africa. The article argues that the principle of intergenerational equity could, in theory, be used as a useful tool for the protection and promotion of the rights and interests of children from climate change impacts. Key words: children's rights; climate change; climate justice; future generations; intergenerational equity

Fisheries management approaches as platforms for climate change adaptation: Comparing theory and practice in Australian fisheries

Marine Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 82-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily M. Ogier ◽  
Julie Davidson ◽  
Pedro Fidelman ◽  
Marcus Haward ◽  
Alistair J. Hobday ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Management Approaches

Making the climate change issue “real” for managers

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Rodley Pineda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Climate Change Issue ◽  
Management Approaches

Purpose Although businesses face various types of risks because of climate change, the level of concern among managers seem to lag behind the institutional pressure to deal with the climate change issue. This paper aims to bridge this gap in perceptions by presenting a framework to assist business leaders in translating the climate change issue into a format that managers can appreciate. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from the supply chain literature, this paper presents a model that shows how climate change-related policy and resource risks affect a firm’s supply, operations and demand domains and the risk management approaches appropriate for each type of risk. Excerpts from 10-K annual reports filed by US automotive and food retailers are used to show how the model works. Findings Although majority of companies examined do not report climate change-related risks, the evidence from those that do affirm the framework’s ability to translate these risks into manager-friendly supply chain terminology. Originality/value Managers can participate in sustainability actions by focusing on the risks and effects of climate change. Business leaders, researchers and policymakers can adopt supply chain risk management terminology to connect with otherwise indifferent managers.

20 Regional Fisheries Management Organizations

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayfuse Rosemary
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Regional Fisheries Management Organizations ◽  
Regional Fisheries Management

This chapter assesses the contribution of Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) to the achievement of the principles of conservation and cooperation articulated in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC). It begins with a brief historical introduction to the institutionalisation of cooperation through RFMOs and an examination of their structural limitations. It then considers the role and contribution of RFMOs in developing the specific content of the obligation to conserve, including the implications for RFMOs of the increasing recognition of the need to protect, conserve, and manage marine biodiversity in general. Finally, it examines the challenges to RFMOs posed by climate change.

scholarly journals Climate Change and Global Warming Disclosure Trends in Bangladesh: A Study on Cement and Pharmaceutical & Chemical Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Shafiqul Alam ◽  
Amirus Salat ◽  
SM Nazrul Islam ◽  
Abu Syed Jabed
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Pharmaceutical Chemical ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Prior Literature

PurposeThe core objective of the study is to critically examine the trends of the climate change & global warming discourses and their dominant characteristics in developing country perspective like Bangladesh.Design/MethodologyThis paper extends the current literature by considering reporting practices of corporation in developing country perspective. Using a sample of 30 listed companies from two major emission intensive industries, we conducted a content analysis for a span of 5 years from 2015 to 2019. A data set consisting of 19 issues of climate change and global warming information was developed through literature review.FindingsAlthough the study observes generally adapting increased disclosures over time, sample companies’ disclosures are lagging. This analysis provides the comprehension of below average climate change and global warming disclosure practices by the companies. Showed positive attitude to disclosing on climate change and global warming in terms of both number of issues disclosed and number of sample companies disclosed, only a few companies disclose rigorously in their annual reports. Compared to Bangladeshi companies, multinational companies are more inclined to comply environmental regulations and disclose more climate change and global warming issues. In particular, we improve the prior literature by focusing on voluntary climate change disclosures and by developing a content analysis to assess the extent of climate change disclosures by polluting industries in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Regional climate models' performance in representing precipitation and temperature over selected Mediterranean areas

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 5041-5059 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Deidda ◽  
M. Marrocu ◽  
G. Caroletti ◽  
G. Pusceddu ◽  
A. Langousis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Hydrological Modeling ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Regional Climate Models ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Ensembles Project ◽  
The Eu

Abstract. This paper discusses the relative performance of several climate models in providing reliable forcing for hydrological modeling in six representative catchments in the Mediterranean region. We consider 14 Regional Climate Models (RCMs), from the EU-FP6 ENSEMBLES project, run for the A1B emission scenario on a common 0.22° (about 24 km) rotated grid over Europe and the Mediterranean region. In the validation period (1951 to 2010) we consider daily precipitation and surface temperatures from the observed data fields (E-OBS) data set, available from the ENSEMBLES project and the data providers in the ECA&D project. Our primary objective is to rank the 14 RCMs for each catchment and select the four best-performing ones to use as common forcing for hydrological models in the six Mediterranean basins considered in the EU-FP7 CLIMB project. Using a common suite of four RCMs for all studied catchments reduces the (epistemic) uncertainty when evaluating trends and climate change impacts in the 21st century. We present and discuss the validation setting, as well as the obtained results and, in some detail, the difficulties we experienced when processing the data. In doing so we also provide useful information and advice for researchers not directly involved in climate modeling, but interested in the use of climate model outputs for hydrological modeling and, more generally, climate change impact studies in the Mediterranean region.

scholarly journals Leading or lagging: How well are climate change considerations being incorporated into Canadian fisheries management?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Daniel G. Boyce ◽  
Susanna Fuller ◽  
Chelsey Karbowski ◽  
Katie Schleit ◽  
Boris Worm
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Climate Variability And Change ◽  
Precautionary Approach ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
High Uncertainty ◽  
Ecosystem Approaches

In response to fisheries declines and delayed population recoveries, many management agencies globally are integrating alternative strategies that incorporate precautionary and ecosystem considerations, increasingly focusing on climate variability and change. Here, we quantitatively evaluate how these themes have been incorporated into the science and management plans for Canada’s fisheries by analyzing the content of 905 research and management documents published by the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) for the Atlantic and Eastern Arctic regions. We found that the precautionary approach was mentioned much more frequently (44%) than climate change (11%) or ecosystem approaches to fisheries management (1%). Of research documents that mentioned climate change, 61% contained only a single reference to it, suggesting that it is not quantitatively evaluated in the science that informs the advisory and decision-making processes. Most references to climate change in the DFO research documents expressed high uncertainty of how climate change would impact the stock dynamics. We propose explanations for this and discuss approaches for increasing the incorporation of these themes into Canada’s fishery management.

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