scholarly journals Energy Transition and Climate Change in Decision-Making Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13404
Author(s):  
Georgios Tsantopoulos ◽  
Evangelia Karasmanaki
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Fuel Technology

Humans have been using fossil fuels for centuries, and the development of fossil fuel technology reshaped society in lasting ways [...]

Contentious Capitol Climates

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-90
Author(s):  
Michael Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Contemporary Climate

Describes the tension between global environmental protection and a local focus on the most disadvantaged communities. The chapter analyzes the development of California’s landmark climate change legislation: Assembly Bill (AB) 32. It illustrates the contentious nature of defining climate change and how the entanglements of diverse knowledges and worldviews shape contemporary climate governance and decision-making processes.

State of the Climate Report: Suriname

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kepa Solaun ◽  
Gerard Alleng ◽  
Adrián Flores ◽  
Chiquita Resomardono ◽  
Katharina Hess ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
The State ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Emissions Scenarios ◽  
Agriculture Water

Suriname is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Among the factors that exacerbate its vulnerability are its dependency on fossil fuels, the degradation of important ecosystems (e.g., mangroves), and the fact that 87% of the population, and most of the countrys economic activity is located within the low-lying coastal area. Many sectors are at risk of suffering losses and damage caused by gradual changes and extreme events related to climate change. For Suriname to develop sustainably, it should incorporate climate change and its effects into its decision-making process based on scientific- evidence. The State of the Climate Report analyzes Surinames historical climate (1990-2014) and provides climate projections for three time horizons (2020-2044, 2045-2069, 2070-2094) through two emissions scenarios (intermediate/ SSP2-4.5 and severe/ SSP5-8.5). The analysis focuses on changes in sea level, temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, and winds for the seven subnational locations of Paramaribo, Albina, Bigi Pan MUMA, Brokopondo, Kwamalasamutu, Tafelberg Natural Reserve, and Upper Tapanahony. The Report also analyzes climate risk for the countrys ten districts by examining the factors which increase their exposure and vulnerability on the four most important sectors affected by climate change: infrastructure, agriculture, water, and forestry, as well as examining the effects across the sectors. The State of the Climate Report provides essential inputs for Suriname to develop and update its climate change policies and targets. These policies and targets should enable an adequate mainstreaming of climate change adaptation and resilience enhancementinto day-to-day government operations. It is expected that the Report will catalyze similar efforts in the future to improve decision-making by providing science-based evidence.

LNG use will be crucial to nations’ energy transitions

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
Net Zero

Significance LNG is cleaner than most fossil fuels but still incompatible with net zero emissions. India, China and other Asian economies see LNG imports as a ready and economically viable means of displacing coal and oil use. Natural gas and then LNG demand will eventually peak as the energy transition accelerates over the next 20 years. Impacts LNG market growth will embed fossil fuel use and infrastructure in developing economies’ energy mixes. Recent market volatility and record spot LNG prices may reverse the trend of greater reliance on spot transactions than long-term contracts. Although the greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits of LNG use in transport are far from clear, it will gain market share in the next few years. LNG project developers will seek to cut GHG emissions from their projects to prolong LNG's attractiveness in the energy transition.

scholarly journals The 21st Century Coal Question: China, India, Development, and Climate Change

Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 476
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Warner ◽  
Glenn A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Community Based ◽  
China And India ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Fossil Fuel Emissions

China and India are not only the two most populous nations on Earth, they are also two of the most rapidly growing economies. Historically, economic and social development have been subsidized by cheap and abundant fossil-fuels. Climate change from fossil-fuel emissions has resulted in the need to reduce fossil-fuel emissions in order to avoid catastrophic warming. If climate goals are achieved, China and India will have been the first major economies to develop via renewable energy sources. In this article, we examine the factors of projected population growth, available fossil-fuel reserves, and renewable energy installations required to develop scenarios in which both China and India may increase per capita energy consumption while remaining on trach to meet ambitious climate goals. Here, we show that China and India will have to expand their renewable energy infrastructure at unprecedented rates in order to support both population growth and development goals. In the larger scope of the literature, we recommend community-based approaches to microgrid and cookstove development in both China and India.

scholarly journals Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Brown ◽  
Samuel J. Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Phase Out ◽  
Development Agendas

In the wake of the Paris Agreement on climate change, promises to phase out coal-fired power have suggested cause for optimism around energy transition globally. However, coal remains entangled with contentious development agendas in many parts of the world, while fossil fuel industries continue to flourish. This article discusses these entanglements through a climate justice lens that engages the cultural politics surrounding coal and energy transition. We highlight how recent struggles around phasing out coal have stimulated renewed critical debates around colonialism, empire, and capitalism more broadly, recognizing climate change as an intersectional issue encompassing racial, gender, and economic justice. With social movements locked in struggles to resist the development or expansion of coal mines, power plants, and associated infrastructure, we unpack tensions that emerge as transnational alliances connect disparate communities across the world. Our conclusion signals the need for greater critical engagement with how intersecting inequalities are coded into the cultural politics of coal, and how this shapes efforts to pursue a just transition.

scholarly journals Participation and co-creative planning for urban sustainability. The Clic-Plan project educational case

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
Caterina Braga
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Pedagogical Discourse ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The environmental degradation and climate change are the contemporary contexts in which educational processes take place. New forms of knowledge are therefore necessary, which place individuals, groups, as well as those responsible for social life at all levels (economic-political, institutional, administrative, productive, cultural), in the condition of not ignoring the consequences of human actions, also on the environment. Educating to participation, in contrast to delegation, promotes a sense of belonging and makes citizens responsible actors within the decision-making processes for managing their own territory. This, in the epistemological relevance of the pedagogical discourse, takes shape in the dimension of engagement for the benefit of the person and the community and is realized in active participation to the so-called smart city. This discussion can occur within an on-going project, CLIC-PLAN: Changing Climate: Local Adaptation Plan for sub-alpine lake districts with a strong commitment to tourism led by the Catholic University, with activities on climate change.   Partecipazione e progettazione condivisa per la sostenibilità urbana. Il caso formativo del progetto Clic-plan Il degrado ambientale e i cambiamenti climatici sono il contesto in cui si svolgono oggi i processi educativi. Sono dunque necessarie nuove forme di conoscenza, che pongano gli individui, i gruppi, i responsabili della vita sociale a tutti i livelli (economico-politico, istituzionale, amministrativo, produttivo, culturale), nella condizione di non ignorare le conseguenze delle azioni umane, anche sull’ambiente. Educare alla partecipazione, in contrasto con la delega, promuove il senso di appartenenza e rende i cittadini attori responsabili dei processi decisionali di gestione del proprio territorio. Questo, nella rilevanza epistemologica del discorso pedagogico, trova forma nella dimensione di engagement a beneficio della persona e della comunità e si realizza nella partecipazione attiva all’interno della cosiddetta smart city. Può contribuire ad alimentare la riflessione il progetto CLIC-PLAN: CLIma in Cambiamento. Piano Locale di AdattameNto per comuni lacustri in territorio subalpino con forte vocazione turistica dell’Università Cattolica, inerente al cambiamento climatico.

scholarly journals Dematerialization Through Services: Evaluating the Evidence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Fix
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Fossil Fuel Consumption ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Sustainability Policy ◽  
Service Transition

Dematerialization through services is a popular proposal for reducing environmental impact. The idea is that by shifting from the production of goods to the provision of services, a society can reduce its material demands. But do societies with a larger service sector actually dematerialize? I test the `dematerialization through services' hypothesis with a focus on fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions --- the primary drivers of climate change. I find no evidence that a service transition leads to carbon dematerialization. Instead, a larger service sector is associated with greater use of fossil fuels and greater carbon emissions per person. This suggests that `dematerialization through services' is not a valid sustainability policy.

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