scholarly journals Local Governments as Nodes for Greenhouse Gas Abatement: Climate Change Governance in Multi- Level Frameworks

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Franzén
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Abatement ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Governance

This research concentrates on the governance aspects of sustainability, and moreparticularly how local governments can work asnodes in a wider system of governance.The question at the center of the study is: how do cities address climate change mitigationand how do their actions relate to other levels of governance? The study takes a mixedqualitative-quantitative approach based on a multi-level theoretical framework to addressthe issue. The study concentrates on a smallnumber of cases and the material used isfound in official documents and semi-structured interviews with key individuals in thelocal governments. The results of the study show that the cities investigated do takeaction to mitigate climate change; however,their actions are heavily dependent on otherlevels of governance, i.e. regional or national, or other actors. This dependence,nonetheless, seems to be reciprocal. Thus, cities can constitute nodes or hubs in thegovernance of climate change mitigation,working simultaneously as actors ofimplementation and channelizing local knowledge and input.

scholarly journals Aiding multi-level decision-making processes for climate change mitigation and adaptation

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (39) ◽  
pp. 392006
Author(s):  
Katherine Anne Daniell ◽  
M A Mdnez Costa ◽  
N Ferrand ◽  
M Vassileva ◽  
F Aix ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Impact of Green Financing on Carbon Drifts to Mitigate Climate Change: Mediating Role of Energy Efficiency

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Chang ◽  
Jianhe Wang ◽  
Ziman Xiang ◽  
Hongda Liu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Green Finance ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Time Specific ◽  
Change Mitigation

Climate change mitigation (CCM) has not been mainly understood and assessed in the terms of carbon drifts persisting at provincial level of China, and to respond the question that how green financing is better financing option for CCM. Thus, our study intends to test the role of green finance on carbon drifts to manage for the mitigation of climate change. For this, unit root test and panel co-integration technique is applied. Study findings reported that the intricate connection between place-and-time-specific GHG emission reduction responsibilities is significant with 18% and the ‘production’, trading and consumption of carbon allowances with 21% and offsets across vast time-space stretches related carbon drift is significant with 19.5% for climate change mitigation. For such significance, green financing is found imperative indicators which is significant at 27.1% with carbon drifts, and mitigates the climate change with 31.3%, which is, relatively high than usual climate change control practices. Our study also provides detailed policy implication on this topicality for associated stakeholder.

scholarly journals Support for climate change mitigation can be promoted by secure human attachment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia F Nisa ◽  
Jocelyn Belanger ◽  
Birga Mareen Schumpe ◽  
Edyta Sasin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
Climate Change Study ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Change Mitigation

Attachment is an ethological approach to the development of durable affective ties betweenhumans. We propose that secure attachment is crucial to understand climate change mitigationbecause the latter is inherently a communal phenomenon resulting from joint action, and requiring collective behavioral change. Here we show that secure (vs. insecure) attachment is associated with a higher willingness to pay taxes and prices to mitigate climate change (Study 1 N=1006 U.S. nationally representative sample). We also establish that priming attachment security increases acceptance (Study 2 N=173) and perceived responsibility about anthropogenic climate change (Study 3 N=209). Next, we show that priming attachment security, compared to a standard National Geographic video about climate change, increases monetary donations to a proenvironmental group in politically moderate and conservative individuals (Study 4 N=196). Lastly, in a preregistered field study conducted in the United Arab Emirates involving 130 nationalities (Study 5 N=143,558 food transactions), we show that an attachment-based message reduces food waste compared to a message related to carbon emissions. Our work suggests that a new avenue to promote climate change mitigation could be grounded in core ethological mechanisms associated with secure attachment.

scholarly journals Aiding multi-level decision-making processes for climate change mitigation and adaptation

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Daniell ◽  
María A. Máñez Costa ◽  
Nils Ferrand ◽  
Ashley B. Kingsborough ◽  
Peter Coad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Practices of development assistance and climate change mitigation in reshaping the Mozambican REDD+ strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-670
Author(s):  
Pekka Virtanen ◽  
Eero Palmujoki
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Governance

ABSTRACTThis paper studies how the practices of climate change governance and development assistance have reshaped the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) process in Mozambique. We look at how the original goals of the Mozambican REDD+ strategy changed in the interplay of different governance-related practices, both those originating locally and nationally, and those coming from international organisations. The paper is based on the frameworks of multilevel governance and practice theory. We identify six combinations of practices that are relevant in the REDD+ programmes and projects. Three of them are incorporated in the general idea of sustainability, including practices of promoting environmental conservation, economic growth and social justice/development, while the remaining three practices are connected to climate-mitigation practices, for which the frame is defined in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

scholarly journals Exploratory Study of the Development of REDD Incentives in Bolivia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Stoppel Jannes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Ecological Ethics ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Change Mitigation

<p>International climate change mitigation efforts have been establishing strategies and programs to achieve Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in developing countries like Bolivia. This research aims to assess these developments and examine the major challenges in the conceptualisation, planning and implementation of these strategies in Bolivia. A review of international negotiations and of current literature on various surrounding issues supplied this research with the needed secondary data. Primary data on Bolivian perspectives and visions on the arising challenges of REDD developments were gathered in January and February 2008. The semi-structured interviews aimed to cover a cross societal range of participants from govt to local forest-inhabitant level. Partially, due to climatic instability, the field-research was hampered by a national flood disaster that challenged the gathering of local forest-inhabitant's visions and perspectives. Through this methodology this research defined key issues in the development of international REDD funding governance and in the challenges of national and local policy and project implementation measures. These are evaluated in consideration of global and local equity and climate-justice issues, offer earthcentric considerations in the evolution of REDD and therefore attempt to contribute to the underlying discourse on ecological ethics in climate change mitigation and adaptation.</p>

Ocean Fertilization as Climate Change Mitigation Measure—Consideration under International Law

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Ginzky
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Mitigation Measure ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Reasonable Approach ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
London Protocol ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractOcean fertilization is, at least theoretically, perceived as an option to mitigate climate change. However, theoretical assumptions could not be proved by experiments, in fact recent experiments have endorsed existing doubts. On international level seems to be a far-reaching—at least political—consensus that ocean fertilization should not be applied as climate change mitigation measure, based inter alia on unknown risks for the marine environment. Currently the Contracting Parties of the London Protocol are negotiating an international ban of ocean fertilization projects. Only “legitimate scientific research” shall be exempted from the prohibition provided negative effects on the marine environment can be excluded in this field. There is an ongoing discussion on whether a prior permission regime for research projects would be an adequate and reasonable approach and—finally also—legally admissible.

scholarly journals Confronting the Challenge of Energy Governance

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Gunningham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Energy Law ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractThere is a compelling argument for developing a low carbon emissions trajectory to mitigate climate change and for doing so urgently. What is needed is a transformation of the energy sector and an ‘energy revolution’. Such a revolution can only be achieved through effective energy governance nationally, regionally, and globally. But frequently such governance is constrained by the tensions between energy security, climate change mitigation and energy poverty. At national level, there is a chasm between what is needed and what governments do ‘on the ground’, while regionally and globally, collective action challenges have often presented insurmountable obstacles. The article examines what forms of energy law, regulation and governance are most needed to overcome these challenges and whether answers are most likely to be found in hierarchy, markets, or networks.

Climate Change Law in Germany

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Koch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
The Past ◽  
Effective Level ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractOver the past two decades, Germany has created a sophisticated climate change legislation framework which in many instances implements international and particularly EU requirements. In some areas, Germany has played a pioneer role in shaping the development of EU law. As an environmental problem of truly global scale, climate change mitigation is heavily reliant on the achievement of international consensus. But it also requires effective, level-specific solutions to problems at all rungs of the multi-level policy hierarchy comprising the international community, the European Union and the Federal Republic of Germany with its sixteen states and numerous cities and municipalities. Much progress has therefore already been made, but efforts must be greatly intensified right across the board.

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