scholarly journals CLIMATE LITERACY AWARENESS AMONG PRESERVICE TEACHERS IN MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Nasir Nayan ◽  
Hanifah Mahat ◽  
Mohmadisa Hashim ◽  
Yazid Saleh ◽  
Saiyidatina Balkhis Norkhaidi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Climate Literacy ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Over Time

Climate change and global warming are the primary issues often debated when environmental issues are discussed nowadays. Among the efforts made to raise awareness concerning mitigation and adaptation to climate change is climate literacy acquired from the educational medium. Therefore, this article seeks to identify the level of awareness on climate literacy among preservice teachers in Malaysia. This study involved 500 final-year students from nine faculties at Sultan Idris Education University using the stratified sampling method. A questionnaire instrument was used to get feedback, containing four study variables, namely the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices of climate change mitigation and adaptation. The findings showed that the knowledge of and attitudes towards climate change mitigation and adaptation variables were at high levels, while the skills and practices of climate change mitigation and adaptation variables were at moderate levels. Thus, this indicates that students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards climate change mitigation and adaptation were good and satisfactory, but not the skills and practices of climate change mitigation and adaptation, which were still moderate and could be improved over time. The findings and issues that have been studied can be used as a reference and guide for universities, educators and ministries in improving students’ climate literacy, aiming for a more sustainable life.

scholarly journals Climate Literacy and Individual Consumption Behavior: An Evaluation of the Indian Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Kanwal D. P. Singh ◽  
Aakriti Mathur
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Individual Consumption ◽  
Climate Literacy ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Consumption Habits

Climate change education and awareness are essential for any effective action on climate change. While regulatory policies and taxes influence consumer behavior, these measures are significantly more successful when the stakeholders are made aware of the larger policy objective underlying such measures, especially the exact extent and nature of the impact of climate change, if Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions continue unabated as also the significant effect small everyday individual choices can have on reducing the individual GHG emissions. This paper will examine the extent of awareness regarding the causes and consequences of climate change as also the government programs and policies for climate change mitigation and adaptation. It will also evaluate the effect of climate literacy on individual consumption habits and attitudes towards climate change mitigation and adaptation. The methodology adopted in this research paper will be empirical and analytical and the authors will collect primary data through the means of a questionnaire administered to a random sample of 300 respondents belonging to the age group of 18 – 75 years, selected from urban areas in India. The research paper shall show the relationship between lack of climate literacy and high GHG emissions through individual consumption habits and behavior and make recommendations for increasing climate literacy in India through effective outreach programs.Keywords: Climate Literacy, Individual Carbon Emissions, Consumption Behavior, Attitudes to Climate Change

scholarly journals Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protected area targets

2020 ◽  
Vol 375 (1794) ◽  
pp. 20190121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Callum M. Roberts ◽  
Bethan C. O'Leary ◽  
Julie P. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Terrestrial Habitats ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Change Mitigation

Nations of the world have, to date, pursued nature protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation policies separately. Both efforts have failed to achieve the scale of action needed to halt biodiversity loss or mitigate climate change. We argue that success can be achieved by aligning targets for biodiversity protection with the habitat protection and restoration necessary to bring down greenhouse gas concentrations and promote natural and societal adaptation to climate change. Success, however, will need much higher targets for environmental protection than the present 10% of sea and 17% of land. A new target of 30% of the sea given high levels of protection from exploitation and harm by 2030 is under consideration and similar targets are being discussed for terrestrial habitats. We make the case here that these higher targets, if achieved, would make the transition to a warmer world slower and less damaging for nature and people. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions’.

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION: PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE MECHANISM FOR LEGAL REGULATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kodaneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Effective Model ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Change Mitigation

This article analyzes the development of international legal instruments for mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The author examines the key international legal documents adopted under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and compares the models of legal regulation used in them. According to the results of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the most effective model is a combination of «hard» and «soft» law.

scholarly journals Extending grassland age for climate change mitigation and adaptation on clay soils

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goaitske Iepema ◽  
Nyncke J. Hoekstra ◽  
Ron de Goede ◽  
Jaap Bloem ◽  
Lijbert Brussaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Clay Soils ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Change Mitigation

Gender, Forests and Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma Marcos Morezuelas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Payment Schemes ◽  
Gender Lens ◽  
Change Mitigation

As users of forest products and guardians of traditional knowledge, women have always been involved in forestry. Nevertheless, their access to forest resources and benefits and participation in forest management is limited compared to mens despite the fact that trees are more important to women, who depend on them for their families food security, income generation and cooking fuel. This guide aims to facilitate the incorporation of a gender lens in climate change mitigation and adaptation operations in forests, with special attention to those framed in REDD. This guide addresses four themes value chains, environmental payment schemes, firewood and biodiversity that relate directly to 1) how climate change impacts affect women in the forest and 2) how mitigation and adaptation measures affect womens access to resources and benefits distribution.

scholarly journals Up with ecology, down with economy? The consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation in the global public sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 587-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Ylä-Anttila ◽  
Juho Vesa ◽  
Veikko Eranti ◽  
Anna Kukkonen ◽  
Tomi Lehtimäki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Business Elites ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Over Time

Building on theories of valuation and evaluation, we develop an analytical framework that outlines six elements of the process of consolidation of an idea in the public sphere. We then use the framework to analyse the process of consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation between 1997 and 2013, focusing on the interplay between ecological and economic evaluations. Our content analysis of 1274 articles in leading newspapers in five countries around the globe shows that (1) ecological arguments increase over time, (2) economic arguments decrease over time, (3) the visibility of environmental nongovernmental organizations as carriers of ecological ideas increases over time, (4) the visibility of business actors correspondingly decreases, (5) ecological ideas are increasingly adopted by political and business elites and (6) a compromise emerges between ecological and economic evaluations, in the form of the argument that climate change mitigation boosts, rather than hinders economic growth.

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