Global Warming Needs No Utopian Science but a Dismal Science

As the empirical evidence for the global warming hypothesis augments, not the least for Asia, it is time to take climate change more seriously, starting with major activities to bring down the CO2:s and guard against methane. It is no longer enough with small scale experimental activities, but a major policy push is necessary to get rid of coal, stone or wood, replacing it or constructing carbon capture facilities everywhere. Old polluting buses and trucks must be replaced urgently, diesel abandoned, and the closure of atomic plants stopped. South Asia and Eat as well as South East Asia have now to embark upon major big scale policies to stop deforestation and desertification, protect coral reefs and secure fresh water sources. Traditional renewables must be replaced by modern renewables. And the pollution from the immense car park has to be regulated somehow. What is now at stake for Asia at the most dynamic part of the globe is to fulfil Goal I and Goal II in the COP21 decarbonisation Agreement? And no government can be allowed to renege.

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Modelling effects of geoengineering options in response to climate change and global warming: Implications for coral reefs

Computational Biology and Chemistry ◽

10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2009.09.004 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

pp. 415-420 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

M.J.C. Crabbe

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Coral Reefs

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South Asia in the 21st Century: “Catching-Up” yet Overheating

Engineering Management Research ◽

10.5539/emr.v6n1p21 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Jan-Erik Lane

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Transaction Costs ◽

South Asia ◽

Environmental Degradation ◽

21St Century ◽

Financial Assistance ◽

Water Shortages ◽

Catching Up

Economist Stern (2016) asks now why so little is concretely done against global warming. But consider the huge countries in South Asia and their mighty neighbours. South Asia is poised to become the next set of Asian economic miracles. Yet they face a terrible threat from the environment, as global warming picks up speed together with more and more environmental degradation. Can these more than 2 billion people work and find food and water, if temperature rises more than 2-3 degrees? Can peasants work and survive? And how to generate enough electricity for housing, given increasing water shortages? Without massive financial assistance, there will occur widespread reneging on the COP21 objectives (Goal I-III). The system of UNFCCC with yearly big meetings does not offer an organization that is up to the coordination tasks involved in halting climate change—too much transaction costs. South Asia needs the promised Super Fund badly that Stern anticipated 2007.

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Climate Change, Trade Competitiveness, and Opportunity for Climate Friendly Goods in SAARC and Asia Pacific Regions

International Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-9814-7.ch017 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 356-379

Author(s):

Soumyananda Dinda

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

South Asia ◽

Comparative Advantage ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

South East Asia ◽

Solar Photovoltaic ◽

Pacific Region ◽

Clean Coal ◽

China And Japan ◽

Trade Competitiveness

This paper examines trade performance of climate friendly goods using some trade indices for South Asia and Asia Pacific countries during 2002 - 2008. Climate friendly goods (CFG) are those goods which are less harmful to environment. Paper identifies performance of Asia Pacific region in CFG trade with other nations. Most of the countries in Asia are importers of climate friendly goods and technologies. The Comparative advantage analyses indicate that Hong Kong, China, and Japan have comparative advantage in the production of CFG goods. Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, and India prefer to trade in CFG regionally and have shown interest in production and trade of clean coal technologies (CCT). East and South East Asia regions have comparative advantage in Solar Photovoltaic Systems (SPVS) and Energy Efficient Lighting (EEL). Japan, China, Malaysia and Macao show good in 2008 for SPVS.

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Agribusiness in South Asia

Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics - Opportunities and Strategic Use of Agribusiness Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4849-3.ch005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 73-92

Author(s):

Md. Hashmi Sakib ◽

Md. Safiul Islam Afrad ◽

Ahmed Harun Al-Rashid ◽

A. K. M. Golam Kausar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Economic Development ◽

Global Warming ◽

South Asia ◽

Food Quality ◽

Developing Nations ◽

Rural Poor ◽

Crop Cultivation ◽

Agricultural Produce ◽

Natural Calamity

Agribusiness plays a key role in the sustainable economic development of rural poor by fulfilling daily needs. In South Asia, all the countries have a similar pattern of societies, resources, climates, practices, and people located close to each other. Crop cultivation, dairy production, fishery, and forestry are the main agribusiness sectors for trading agricultural produce in markets. In contrast, factors (i.e., global warming due to climate change, natural calamity, environmental pollution, unsafe foodstuff, labor unavailability, marketing limitations, and financial crisis) are responsible for a serious fatal to agribusiness activities. Unless we uproot challenges, agribusiness cannot contribute effectively to the economy of developing nations in South Asia. Thus, future strategies may be standing on contemporary scientific research approaches on crop science, restoring resources, controlling food quality, introducing modern types of machinery, best marketing practices, and inclusive financing.

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Global warming as ecocide

Climate Change Criminology ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781529203950.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 19-40

Author(s):

Rob White

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Economic Growth ◽

Global Warming ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

The State ◽

Small Scale ◽

State Legislation ◽

Everyday Activities ◽

The Everyday ◽

Treadmill Of Production

This chapter defines and describes the concept of ecocide, which refers to the destruction of ecological systems and habitats. This includes the everyday activities that contribute to climate change and thus to ecocide on a larger and small scale. The chapter then introduces the notion of state–corporate nexus by examining how industries, supported and abetted by governments, contribute to global warming. Indeed, pro-capitalist ideologies and practices ensure continued economic growth at the expense of ecological limits. As such, effective responses to climate change need to address the deep-seated inequalities and trends within the treadmill of production that go to the heart of the ownership, control, and exploitation of resources. The crime of ecocide is rarely embedded, however, in state legislation. This is, in part, because the state is directly implicated in perpetuating activities that contribute to global warming.

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Effects of Climate Change/Global Warming on Coral Reefs: Adaptation/Exaptation in Corals, Evolution in Zooxanthellae, and Biogeographic Shifts

Environmental Bioindicators ◽

10.1080/15555270902905377 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 9-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Paul W. Sammarco ◽

Kevin B. Strychar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Coral Reefs

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BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES OF MERCURY CHLORIDE ON BLOOD METABOLITE LEVELS OF A FRESHWATER FISH, LABEO ROHITA

Kongunadu Research Journal ◽

10.26524/krj154 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 94-96

Author(s):

Lekeshmanaswamy M ◽

Anusiya Devi K ◽

Vasuki C.A

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

South Asia ◽

Freshwater Fish ◽

Fresh Water ◽

Labeo Rohita ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Biochemical Changes ◽

Mercury Chloride ◽

South East Asia ◽

Blood Biochemical

Rohu (Labeo rohita) is a fish of the carp family Cyprinidae, found commonly in rivers and fresh water lakes in and around South Asia and South - East Asia. The freshwater fish Labeo rohita were exposed to Mercury chloride (0.25 ppm) for 10, 20 and 30 days and its effect on blood – bio chemical properties in the form of hyperglycemia, hypoproteinemia and hypercholesteromia. The results of the present study that the blood – biochemical changes may lead to the fish morbidity and mortality.

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Financial precautions, carbon dioxide leakage, and the European Directive 2009/31/EC on carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Climatic Change ◽

10.1007/s10584-020-02904-1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 163 (2) ◽

pp. 787-806

Author(s):

Manuel Wifling

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Global Warming ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

State Budget ◽

European Legislation ◽

European Directive ◽

Carbon Dioxide Leakage ◽

And Storage

AbstractThe phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change has been identified as a threat multiplier for many human-related concerns. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) can, in combination with several other mitigation technologies, alleviate global warming by reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Reducing climate change-related risks via CCS creates another risk, smaller in extent: the risk that some of the stored CO2 leaks out of the storage complex. This article reviews European legislation and evaluates how one of its objectives, that private liabilities of CCS-related leakage risks are not socialized, is ensured. Slight modifications of European legislation are suggested in order to prevent an indefinite liability of CCS operators in case a storage complex turns out to be unexpectedly and unavoidably prone to CO2 leakages. Official German and Hungarian financial precaution specifications are contrasted and related to this article’s finding that the state budget is sufficiently hedged against the expected value of climate-related leakage compensation costs of poorly managed storage complexes if 3 to 6% of a CCS operator’s emission-related revenues are diverted into a financial precaution fund.

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