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 Secure human attachment can promote support for climate change mitigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (37) ◽  
pp. e2101046118
Author(s):  
Claudia F. Nisa ◽  
Jocelyn J. Bélanger ◽  
Birga M. Schumpe ◽  
Edyta M. Sasin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
Change Mitigation

Attachment theory is an ethological approach to the development of durable, affective ties between humans. We propose that secure attachment is crucial for understanding climate change mitigation, because the latter is inherently a communal phenomenon resulting from joint action and requiring collective behavioral change. Here, we show that priming attachment security increases acceptance (Study 1: n = 173) and perceived responsibility toward anthropogenic climate change (Study 2: n = 209) via increased empathy for others. Next, we demonstrate 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 3: n = 196). Finally, through a preregistered field study conducted in the United Arab Emirates (Study 4: n = 143,558 food transactions), we show that, compared to a message related to carbon emissions, an attachment security–based message is associated with a reduction in food waste. Taken together, our work suggests that an avenue to promote climate change mitigation could be grounded in core ethological mechanisms associated with secure attachment.

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 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.

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.

Human rights, harm, and climate change mitigation

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 416-435
Author(s):  
Brian Berkey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractA number of philosophers have resisted impersonal explanations of our obligation to mitigate climate change, and have developed accounts according to which these obligations are explained by human rights or harm-based considerations. In this paper I argue that several of these attempts to explain our mitigation obligations without appealing to impersonal factors fail, since they either cannot account for a plausibly robust obligation to mitigate, or have implausible implications in other cases. I conclude that despite the appeal of the motivations for rejecting the appeal to impersonal factors, such factors must play a prominent role in explaining our mitigation obligations.

Ability of Urban Planning Policy in Addressing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Kiranmayi Raparthi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Planning Policies

Climate change is a multidimensional observable fact and is regarded as one of the greatest challenges human society is facing in the 21st century. Urban researchers advocate that well formulated urban spatial planning policy has the ability to mitigate climate change and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. However, there has been limited research on analysing the extent to which spatial planning policies address climate change mitigation and adaptation. This chapter presents a qualitative evaluation of urban spatial planning polices in India by assessing planning policies against an evaluation framework. The analysis highlights that there are limited climate change mitigation and adaptation indicators in planning documents, and these indicators have been very limitedly integrated in the planning documents. This research supports the use of spatial planning policy as an effective tool in addressing climate change mitigation and has an implication for mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban planning.

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’.

scholarly journals Treaty Norms and Climate Change Mitigation

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrel Moellendorf
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
To Come ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Development Prospects ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
New Framework

Treaty Norms and Climate Change MitigationDarrel MoellendorfCurrently the international community is discussing the regulatory framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012. The unveiling of the new framework is scheduled to occur at the December 2009 COP in Copenhagen. The stakes are high, since any treaty will affect the development prospects of per capita poor countries and will determine the climate change–related costs borne by poor people for centuries to come. Failure to arrive at an agreement would have grave effects on the development prospects of poor countries, many of which will experience the most severe effects of climate change. The original UNFCCC treaty recognizes these kinds of concerns and requires that further treaty negotiation pay them heed. Any agreement will be required to conform to UNFCCC norms related to sustainable development and the equitable distribution of responsibilities. In this paper I argue that UNFCCC norms tightly constrain the range of acceptable agreements for the distribution of burdens to mitigate climate change. I conclude that any legitimate treaty must put much heavier mitigation burdens on industrialized developed countries. Of the various proposals that have received international attention, two in particular stand out as possibly satisfying UNFCCC norms regarding the distribution of responsibilities.

Climate justice from a club good perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes (Joost) Platje ◽  
Remko Kampen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Club Good ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Change Mitigation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply club good theory to challenges in climate justice and to identify the opportunities for creating a club of countries or regions to support climate justice and/or mitigate climate change, as well as the threats that such clubs could lead to the real exclusion of large parts of the world from climate justice. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical analysis is provided regarding the conditions for creating a club for climate change mitigation. Indicators of good governance and trust, as well as the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), are used to assess the capacity for creating such a club. Findings While opportunities for achieving climate justice are identified, climate change mitigation is likely to be at most a club good at the global level, thus excluding the most vulnerable countries, regions and groups of people. Although the threats of climate change may be acknowledged, they are easily neglected. Economic growth is likely to be a condition for economic sustainability, which in turn tends to be a condition for environmental sustainability. Decision makers should be conscious of the potential danger of creating a club for climate change mitigation based on the belief that economic growth and technology will solve these problems, as such a club is likely to be either unsustainable, or very small, while deepening existing injustice. Originality/value The authors provide an overview of the complexity of issues involved, to gain an appreciation of the vast, perhaps insurmountable, challenges facing climate justice. A club good approach is applied to issues of climate justice, emphasizing the limitations of the all-inclusiveness of climate justice and sustainable development.

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