scholarly journals Environmental Concerns of Russian Businesses: Top Company Missions and Climate Change Agenda

Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana K. Molchanova ◽  
Natalia N. Yashalova ◽  
Dmitry A. Ruban
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Precipitation Increase

Climate change is on the national agenda of Russia due to this country’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the expected degree of warming and precipitation increase in its territory. A content analysis of the mission statements of the 100 biggest Russian companies shows that 18.5% of them deal with environmental issues. About half of the companies that declare pro-environmental behavior belong to the energy production and transmission industry. It also is found that more than 30% of all leading hydrocarbon, chemical, and mining companies express environmental concerns in their mission statements. The main environmental priorities declared by the top Russian companies include caring for nature, production ecologization, energy efficiency, and ecological standards. These priorities are related to climate-friendly behavior, but the latter is not stated directly. Direct consideration of climate change in the mission statements of Russian companies is recommended.

scholarly journals Mobile Android APP Proposal Using an Inventor Platform Applied to Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 497-505
Author(s):  
Anderson De Jesus Lopes Castro ◽  
Fabiana Rocha Pinto ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
Ricardo Silva Parente
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Expenditure ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Residential Unit ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Android App ◽  
Ease Of Access

This paper reports on the implementation of the efficient Manaus project, with the objective of developing a mobile application that expires on energy saving, related to environmental issues, since energy production, advanced natural resources. This application is designed to be used in a residential unit to provide residents with information on formula applications that explain the generation and energy expenditure of household electrical appliances, use or usage tests, and usage of the device. lowering values ​​and minimizing the use of environmental resources. Thus, through a process of raising awareness of the knowledge gained from research in recent years, as well as providing quality content and ease of access, use the Google platform "APP INVENTOR" as a framework for testing results. Therefore, compile information on the best use of energy from a variety of information, including the elaboration of a Quiz, which addresses questions such as: where does electricity come from; tariff flags; efficient equipment; and electricity security, implemented in the application where they were supported by tools such as cartridges, and information from the agencies that reference each of these themes. This mode generates positive expectations for the future, which can create numerous other applications with information that helps to understand products, processes, changes in the sustainability context, to minimize impacts by new technologies.

scholarly journals Litigating Climate Claims in India

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Shibani Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Near Future

Jacqueline Peel and Jolene Lin's informative assessment of climate litigation in the Global South is a vital and timely contribution to the growing literature on the issue. It relies on a definition of climate litigation that allows the authors to draw on a much larger set of cases from the Global South by including cases in which climate concerns are “at the periphery.” This essay examines climate litigation in India. Although the term “global warming” started appearing in Indian environmental judgments in the 1990s, climate litigation in India is of relatively recent provenance, and with a few exceptions, climate concerns are peripheral to other, more mainstream environmental issues. Peel and Lin analyze five Indian cases as part of their Global South docket; I expand this set by including fourteen more cases that I believe fit their article's chosen definitional ambit. I classify these cases into four categories based on the use of climate language—reference to climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or the international negotiations—in the courts’ judgment. Drawing from case law analysis and Indian environmental litigation, I make observations about what we can interpret from the current set of climate cases, and I predict that while conditions are favorable for climate litigation in India to grow, in the near future climate claims are likely to remain peripheral issues.

Catholic clerical responses to climate change and Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862097402
Author(s):  
Dominic Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
The World ◽  
Systemic Barriers ◽  
The Catholic Church

The 2015 release of Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment—Laudato Si’—was met with widespread praise by many who hoped this document would spur Catholics around the world to join movements struggling against climate change. Frequently, these hopes were accompanied by expectations that leaders in the Catholic Church would begin greening their churches and help integrate their parishioners into broader environmental movements. However, while there are strong theoretical rationales supporting Catholic environmental action, few studies have examined what—if anything—is actually happening. This paper responds to this gap by assessing how Catholic clergy in one U.S. diocese are engaging environmental concerns. Drawing upon 31 interviews with priests and deacons across the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., this study finds that few clergy are substantively engaging environmental issues. In addition, this paper identifies and discusses several personal and systemic barriers hampering Catholic clerical efforts to further green their churches.

Evaluating Integration of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Policy in Swedish Structure Plans: The Performance Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750011
Author(s):  
Sylvia Dovlén ◽  
Abdul Khakee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Local Structure ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Energy Efficiency Policy ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Implementation Aspects

Integration of national climate change and energy efficiency goals into conventional local structure planning requires a shift in focus from conventional concerns about urban growth to local sustainable development in which climate change and energy efficiency are key components. Local government responses in integrating these goals show structural limitations, despite widespread awareness of the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt more climate-smart and energy-efficient policies. This paper assesses the integration of national climate change and energy efficiency goals in Swedish local structure plans and presents an in-depth study of one plan, that of Värmdö municipality in Sweden. The evaluation comprised plan content analysis using a few selected criteria for three concepts, namely, ‘visions’, ‘comprehensive strategies’ and ‘measures’, and use of the Dutch performance approach to examine implementation aspects of climate change and energy efficiency strategies in the plans.

Environmental affordances and the work of everyday family lives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Uma Vennam ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Environmental Messages ◽  
The Uk

This chapter looks at the sort of environmental issues that families in India and the UK had to negotiate: sometimes routinely (for example, pollution and danger from road traffic) and sometimes unpredictably (for example, flooding and other extreme weather events). It addresses the complexity of the intermeshing of environmental concerns and practices by focusing on families who were so preoccupied with caring for their families and the daily grind of family maintenance that this superseded concern with climate change. Since families live in diverse material circumstances, environmental messages are likely to be received in different ways and to have varied impacts on different families and children.

Everyday engagement with climate change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Uma Vennam ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
The Uk

This introductory chapter elaborates on the concept of climate change. It considers how families and the children within them think and feel about their local environments and how these ‘small’ environmental issues fit with ‘big’ environmental concerns about climate change in one country in the Majority world (India), and one in the Minority world (the UK). There is a great deal of evidence that, while most scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is a pressing issue and most people believe that climate change needs to be addressed, relatively few in countries that produce the most carbon emissions are prepared to make sacrifices to deal with it.

When Cap-and-Trade Works

2018 ◽  
pp. 125-162
Author(s):  
Barry G. Rabe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Sulfur Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Cap And Trade ◽  
Sulfur Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Trading Program

Cap-and-trade has also faced numerous political challenges but also includes some more successful cases. Some of the experience of the American sulfur dioxide emissions trading program has been replicated for carbon in the case of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. This alliance among nine Northeastern states has retained political support for more than a decade and also pioneered a system to auction allowances to generate revenue. These funds are then concentrated on expansion of energy efficiency and renewable energy in the region, thereby further addressing climate change and also building a broader base of political support.

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-230
Author(s):  
David Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Automotive Emissions ◽  
Improve Energy Efficiency

This chapter describes how, for four decades, California has been at the forefront of national efforts to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These initiatives began with policies to reduce energy use in order to avoid the construction of additional power plants and went on to include progressively more stringent energy efficiency standards and renewable energy mandates, additional curbs on automotive emissions, and a cap-and-trade program designed to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions. The emergence and expansion of these efforts demonstrates the importance of the factors that have shaped environmental policy innovations in other areas. At the same time, these policies are also distinct from those described in the previous chapters. First, they developed more incrementally, with some backsliding, much conflict, and frequent compromises. Second, some of their policy triggers—most notably, the 1973 energy crisis and California's 2000–2001 energy deregulation fiasco—were unrelated to environmental risks or threats. Third, their scope, diversity, and economic impact have been more substantial than those of the state's regulations protecting land use, coastal areas, and automotive emissions. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, in marked contrast to the state's other environmental policy threats, California cannot protect itself from the risks of global climate change. This means that the state has a critical stake in promoting a “California effect” that will encourage other political jurisdictions both in and outside the United States to also restrict their greenhouse gas emissions.

Now Is the Time to Add More Sociology of Climate Change to Our Introduction to Sociology Courses

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Chung-En Liu ◽  
Andrew Szasz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Introductory Textbooks ◽  
Over Time

Sociology has been slow in responding to the challenge of climate change. In this conversation, we advocate adding more climate change content to Introduction to Sociology courses. To support our arguments, we present data from a content analysis of the top 11 best-selling introductory textbooks in the United States, demonstrating that environmental concerns are usually relegated to the end of books, which provide little (and sometime errant) content. Climate change gets even less attention, and there has been little change to textbook content over time. To correct such deficiencies, we suggest instructors free climate change from its current position as “a subfield of a subfield” and interweave the issue with all content areas in the curriculum. Our conversation concludes by considering how climate change can be featured in the curriculum of introductory courses as well as in the pedagogies presented at the introductory level.

Building Networks from the Outside In: International Movements, Japanese Ngos, and the Kyoto Climate Change Conference

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Reimann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
National Level ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Network Organization ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Sudden Rise ◽  
State Actors ◽  
International Socialization

Since the late 1980s, there has been a sudden rise in the number of advocacy NGOs in Japan involved in global and transnational environmental issues. This is a surprising development considering the difficult domestic conditions faced by social activists in Japan trying to organize at the national level. To explain these recent changes, this article looks to three international processes: (1) international opportunities, (2) transnational diffusion, and (3) international socialization of state actors. Using the case of Kiko Forum, a Japanese network organization created in 1996 to mobilize support for ambitious greenhouse gas reductions, this article traces how these three processes provided new external resources for activists and altered domestic structures themselves.

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