Submission to House of Lords: Inquiry ‘Aspects of the Economics of Climate Change’

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 639-647
Author(s):  
Julian Morris
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Vector Borne ◽  
Biodiversity Changes

Some claim that climate change will result in an increase in vector-borne disease, flooding, catastrophic weather events, loss of biodiversity, changes in agricultural production and other problems. Yet these are problems today and are either caused or are exacerbated by poverty. Tackling poverty is likely to be better way to address these problems than attempting to control the climate. Climatic change may turn out to be benign or harmful: We do not know. But in the context of this uncertainty, policies that are narrowly focused on adaptation to possible negative effects are short-sighted and may even be counterproductive. Policies aimed at mitigation through control of atmospheric carbon are almost certainly counterproductive. Adaptive, sustainable development can only come through the adoption of institutions that enable people to engage in economic activities that create wealth and lead to technological progress. Policies that rely on these institutions provide the best way to deal with an uncertain climate future.

scholarly journals Impact of Climate Change on Major Marine Industries

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 03072
Author(s):  
Hao Kong ◽  
Wei Yang ◽  
Ping Zhang ◽  
Ricai Peng
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Marine Economy ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Marine economic activities are mainly distributed in areas with extremely fragile ecological environment, rising sea level, rising sea surface temperature, ocean acidification and extreme weather events, etc. These activities have major impacts on the environment and ecosystems of fragile marine and coastal areas, posing a major threat to sustainable development of marine economy. This paper reviews recent researches on the impact of climate change on various marine industries. The results show that climate change has remarkable impacts on marine economy, and some marine industries are especially sensitive. There are both negative and positive consequences of climate change, but no doubt, the negative effects dominate. The government should take pertinent measures to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.

scholarly journals Vpliv namakanja v kombinaciji s tehnologijo nege ledine na razporeditev, migracijo ter vsebnost nitrata in bakra v tleh oljčnih nasadov

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Maja PODGORNIK
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Applied Water ◽  
Soil Cultivation ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Decomposition Of Organic Matter ◽  
Olive Groves

The more frequent and intense extreme weather events (higher temperatures – the intensity and frequency of heat weaves, more and longer periods of drought) and weather-related diseases and pests, that have caused the greatest damage to olive production in the recent years, are a warning that urgent changes to Slovenian olive culture are needed. Due to the realisation that adaptations of agricultural production to climatic changes can have negative effects on the environment (water, soil), we conducted an experiment to determine the actual effect of adaptations of agro-technical management on the dynamics of nitrate and copper in the soil. The results of the study have shown that irrigation in combination with the technology of soil cultivation have effect on the allocation, migration and content of nitrate and copper in the soil of olive groves. Along with the fact that applied water allows the undisturbed absorption of nutrients into the plant, it can also improve the conditions for mineralisation and decomposition of organic matter, which is heavily dependent on the type of soil cultivation.

Contributions of Urban Agro Ecological Agriculture to Ecosystem Services

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández ◽  
Olga E. Domené-Painenao
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social

This paper has the aim to analyze the implications of the transition of ecosystem services based on urban agro ecology. It advances on the debate over the negative effects of the traditional and industrial oriented agricultural production on the ecosystem services, food systems, climate change, etc. and analyses the principles, methods, and some practices that support the transition to urban agro ecology. The method employed is the analytical of the theoretical and empirical literature review. It concludes that a transition from traditional and industrial-oriented agriculture towards more urban agro ecology is inevitable to improve the ecological and environmental services, the economic efficiency, the social equity and justice, and the environmental sustainability of cities.

scholarly journals Green Economy for Sustainable Development in Nepal: Role of Forestry Sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 96-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhav Karki
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Poor Country ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Rural And Urban

Although there is no unified view among the policy makers and development experts on what represents and drives a Green Economy and there is also no clarity on what it means for the mountain countries like Nepal, the concept is however, very pertinent in the context of rapid climate change and unsustainable development. There is a general agreement that green economy provides opportunities for developing and forest rich country like Nepal as the fossil fuel-based and import oriented consumerism based economy cannot be successful today and in future. It is likely that green economy could be a good vehicle to reach sustainable mountain development (SMD). However, there is a need to develop specific and strategies and action plans to implement green and low-carbon economic activities. First and foremost, there is a need to develop a national policy and to use green economy to achieve poverty reduction and sustainable development. The economic growth rate has to be sustained while reducing poverty through sound development plans and programmes actively participated and managed by poor and enterprising rural and urban communities and supported by government, non-government and donor agencies. There are numerous challenges in adapting and adopting Green Economy policies in a poor country like Nepal. Capacity and skill development, technology adaptation, transfer, and retrofitting to suit Nepal’s hilly and mountainous terrains, need for huge investment in processing and value addition, and of course adapting to and mitigating against climate change are some of the major challenges. Notwithstanding these constraints, green economic policies and programmes can be means to achieve sustainable development in the mountainous region. There is need to document good case studies for drawing lessons so that future green growth pathway can be charted in a flawless manner and scaling up of the success to create bigger impacts can be achieved. Finally, effective and outcome oriented implementation will require multi-disciplinary planning, interdisciplinary implementation, and effective and participatory monitoring and evaluation. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/init.v5i0.10259   The Initiation 2013 Vol.5; 96-109

scholarly journals The Implications of Extreme Weather Events for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel N. A. Codjoe ◽  
D. Yaw Atiglo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan

Sub-Saharan Africa is among the regions that contribute least to global climate change, yet it is among the most vulnerable to its impacts due to low levels of economic and technological development. The frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events in the region are rising at a faster rate than the population capacity to deal with the attendant disasters. This paper interrogates some emerging and existing evidence of the potential for extreme weather events to obviate countries' attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Whilst previous studies have assessed the vulnerabilities of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to extreme weather events on specific sectors, a comprehensive assessment of the implications of these extreme events for attaining the SDGs remains largely untouched. This paper assesses the impacts of flooding, extreme heat and drought on five key SDGs—Zero hunger (Goal 2), Good health and well-being (Goal 3), Quality education (Goal 4), Clean water and sanitation (Goal 6), and Sustainable cities and communities (Goal 11). Based on empirical cases from different SSA country contexts, and guided by the SDG targets and indicators, we discuss the main interactions between extreme weather events and different SDGs, emerging with a framework for the climate change—sustainable development nexus. Such an assessment, with regard to specific national and local case studies, would inform policy formulation and implementation, research and investment toward sustainable development in the region. Integrating resilence strategies into national development policies will offer sub-Saharan African countries the opportunity to reduce the impacts of extreme weather events on attaining their targets for sustainable development towards Agenda 2030.

Hypothesizing a New Standard for Environmental Injunctions

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Kalpana S. Murari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Judicial Discretion ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Injunctive Relief ◽  
Natural Capital Accounting

Environmental litigation expands into economic activities that contribute to global warming and promotes inequitable distribution of natural resources. In the context of climate change litigation, international courts have consistently held that governments need to act on climate change and strive towards sustainable development. Courts are expected to act proactively and provide long-term solutions to environmental problems and address climate change impacts by ensuring compliance of legislative norms. Courts exercise discretionary powers when granting injunctive relief that provide a threshold for courts to intervene and guide economic activities of a nation towards sustainable development. Courts need to protect the legislative intent of the executive, preserve fundamental rights of parties not present before the court while preventing any injury to the defending party by protecting their rights under law or in equity. In the absence of statutory prescriptions for testing environmental harm, courts have established standards for granting interim relief, to ensure there is no abuse of powers to grant injunctions and that such orders are not set aside on grounds of abuse of judicial discretion. This paper prescribes a single, uniform and sufficient standard that calls for ‘Natural Capital’ accounting by federal agencies and private businesses that exploit natural resources for commercial purposes. Keywords: Environmental injunctions; Natural capital; Natural Capital accounting; Injunctive relief; Precautionary principle

scholarly journals Hydroponic Training to Improve Community Living Standards in Densely Populated and Weak Economies

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1569-1577
Author(s):  
Bob Foster ◽  
Fitriani Reyta ◽  
Muhamad Deni Johansyah
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Service ◽  
International Student ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Additional Income ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Simple hydroponic technology plays a role in increasing human capacity and capacity to deal with the impacts of climate change and contribute to sustainable development. Dealing with the impacts of climate change means reducing significantly or eliminating negative effects on society and the natural environment, this activity can be started through simple things such as reforesting the immediate environment in the community. The principle of sustainable development is an important guide to ensure that the use of simple technologies such as hydroponics to reduce climate change by recycling materials also has an impact on increasing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. I Green Project, We Grow Communityis a community service initiated by LPPM Universitas Informatics and Bisnis Indonesia in collaboration with the International Student Organization AIESEC focuses on the role of academics in mitigating climate change by adopting actions to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Because climate and environment are interrelated, this community service also considers the role of hydroponics as greening the environment in helping individuals understand the environment around them, which is a prerequisite for overcoming the problem of climate change. Pengabdian located in Baranang Siang, Bandung City, West Java, 2018 has provided an understanding of the steps needed to reduce climate change, including several policy issues that need to be addressed, changing environmental conditions to be greener and activating community participation to have additional income from the program. Hydroponics so that people with weak economies are more helped to be independent. This program is implemented for 1 month in August with the number of community members as executors of 30 (thirty) people.

scholarly journals FARMERS' PERCEPTION REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTHERN TURKEY: THE CASE OF MERSIN PROVINCE

New Medit ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Cost

Climate change is responsible for the negative effects in human life causing a decrease in agricultural products, biodiversity, soil fertility, and forest areas. In contrast, climate change increases plant diseases and pests, the cost of agricultural production and risk in food security. This study aims to determine whether climate change is a phenomenon via the analysis of the perceptions of the farmers in the Mersin province conducted over 251 questionnaires. Farmers primarily perceive climate change over production costs and the reduction in yield. Moreover, they are highly aware of its relation to natural events such as floods, drought, and storms. Nevertheless, inappropriate agricultural practices also lead to the negative consequences caused by climate change. In this respect, this study revealed that farmers with high cooperative partnerships and experience perceived climate change significantly.

scholarly journals Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 117-139
Author(s):  
Dániel Fróna ◽  
János Szenderák ◽  
Mónika Harangi-Rákos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Negative Effects

Climate change seems to be larger, more complex and more unpredictable than any other environmental problem. This review deals with the economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production. The causes and consequences of climate change are very diverse, while populations in low-income countries are increasingly exposed to its negative effects. Supplying the population with food is possible with increased agricultural production, but this often occurs under unsustainable circumstances. Increased agricultural production is also one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In this research we highlight some of the important connections between climate change, population growth and agricultural production.

scholarly journals Corona Virus, Climate Change, and Food Security

2021 ◽  
pp. 563-579
Author(s):  
Nkiru Theresa Meludu ◽  
Toyin Abolade
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Food Shortage ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Improve Food Security

AbstractCoronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is a current pandemic causing lockdown of cities and countries. The nature of this disease and the global cases are still considered as deadly all over the world. Analogous was drawn between the current COVID-19 pandemic and some of the other contemporary crises of the world as regards to climate change in addition to food shortage. Also, Survey Monkey instrument was used to generate emperical evidences from 514 respondents on covid-19 awareness and the effect on food security. Effects of diseases on climate change, such as the increasing frequency and strength of extreme weather events or the expanding range and spread of diseases was considered. Then, the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change was investigated. Prior to the pandemic, climate change already had adverse effects on agriculture and vice versa, which led to food insecurity. The need for fruits as well as leafy and root vegetables in peri-urban and urban areas is increasing, as well as the food shortage. A drop in agricultural production will be expected in the future if the pandemic continues for a few more months. The perception and adherence to the preventive measures for this pandemic were determined to reduce its spread and lessen its effect on agricultural production as well as to improve food security

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