scholarly journals Motivators of Participation and Non-Participation in Youth Environmental Protests

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah R. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
Change Mitigation

This paper is an exploratory study investigating motivators of teenagers to both attend and not attend a climate change related protest event. Using open-ended surveys and focus groups, 16–19-year-old Australian students were asked about their motivators to attend and abstain from School Strike 4 Climate events. Through qualitative analysis and thematic coding, results show key motivators to attend a Strike include climate change and acts of political participation that provide youth with a public voice. Protest is positioned as a key part of teen political repertoires. Reasons for non-attendance included prioritizing schoolwork and low efficacy in protest or participatory action. However, low efficacy in climate change mitigation, or an outright rejection of climate science, was not evident in this sample. Overall, reasons for attendance and non-attendance at a Strike event were not direct mirror images of the other, and implications for inclusion of non-participants in further studies is discussed in this light.

scholarly journals An exploratory study of motivations driving corporate investment in voluntary climate change mitigation in South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Reyers ◽  
Daan Gouws ◽  
James Blignaut
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Selection Of

 AbstractThis study investigates factors driving investment in voluntary climate change mitigation among a selection of listed corporations in South Africa. Based on a review of the literature, a proposed conceptual framework is developed and empirically tested using case studies. A qualitative analysis of the data reveals three key motivational drivers: legitimacy, the financial business case and moral responsibility. In addition, a number of sub-drivers are identified which provide insights for engagement with companies in developing South Africa’s response to climate change.

Political Institutions and Intergenerational Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Karnein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Intergenerational Ethics ◽  
Change Mitigation

This chapter reviews two prominent debates about institutions and intergenerational ethics, one held at the time of the founding of America and the other held today in the context of climate change. These two debates have more in common than may, at first, appear. On the face of it, the historical debate was about whether institutions, specifically the constitution, may bind future generations or whether the latter should be left maximally unencumbered. By contrast, proponents of climate change mitigation today would like institutions to be more inclusive of future generations’ interests. But, this chapter suggests, the new debate ought to be understood along the same lines as the old one, namely as being about avoiding disenfranchisement, that is, about preventing a situation in which previous generations determine too much of the context of future generations’ choices.

scholarly journals Two decades of Earth system modeling with an emphasis on Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michio Kawamiya ◽  
Tomohiro Hajima ◽  
Kaoru Tachiiri ◽  
Shingo Watanabe ◽  
Tokuta Yokohata
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Biogeochemical Processes ◽  
Earth System ◽  
System Models ◽  
Earth System Models ◽  
Change Mitigation

Abstract The past 20 years of research using Earth system models (ESMs) is reviewed with an emphasis on results from the ESM based on MIROC (Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate) developed in Japan. Earth system models are climate models incorporating biogeochemical processes such as the carbon cycle. The development of ESM was triggered by studies of the feedback between climate change and the carbon cycle. State-of-the-art ESMs are much more realistic than the first ESMs. They now include various biogeochemical processes other than carbon, such as atmospheric chemistry and the nitrogen and iron cycles as well as nutrient transport by atmospheric dust and rivers. They are used to address many practical issues, such as evaluating the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that is consistent with climate change mitigation targets, and are indispensable tools for the development of climate change mitigation policies. Novel, ambitious attempts to use ESMs include coupling socioeconomics with Earth systems, and projecting the carbon cycle on decadal timescales. Development of ESMs requires ongoing integration of multiple aspects of climate science. Emerging applications of ESMs can bring forth meaningful insights, and should be directed toward expanding connections with fields outside climate science, e.g., socioeconomics.

Analysis of the Perceived Utility of Energy Sources for Climate Change Mitigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-461
Author(s):  
Youngseok Yoon ◽  
Young Oh Kim ◽  
Jiwoong Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Perceived Utility ◽  
Change Mitigation
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