scholarly journals How Political Events Can Motivate Some Risk Mitigation Activities for Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 364-375
Author(s):  
Maliha Farrooz ◽  
Robin Dillon ◽  
Chris Hydock
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Small Individual ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Over Time

Aim: To stem the risks of future climate change, more people need to be motivated to take actions that will mitigate the release of greenhouse gases into the environment. Important to this discussion was that these actions include both public and private sphere behaviors. Duration of Study: April 2016 to March 2017. Methodology: We surveyed individual’s beliefs about climate change and their stated willingness to take different actions to mitigate the risks of climate change. Results: Public sphere behaviors affect the environment only indirectly by influencing either public policies or other private sphere behaviors. Private sphere behaviors have direct environmental consequences but the consequences are small. Individual private sphere behaviors have environmentally significant impacts only in the aggregate when many people independently do similar things. Conclusion: Our study replicated many of the results from the literature, in particular, that individuals are most willing to engage in small private actions to mitigate climate change, and that at least for large private acts and public acts, individuals who describe themselves as Democrats are also more willing to engage in more costly acts. Our survey also showed an important effect from the 2016 election of President of USA. Following the election, Democrats stated an increased willingness to engage in public sphere acts over time. If more individuals engaging in more public acts can influence public policy and can convert other individuals to engage in more private acts over time, then electing leadership who is negative toward climate change can ultimately result in motivating more individual mitigation activity for climate change. Summary: This work shows that electing leaders who are negative toward climate change could provide a strong motivation for some individuals to be more willing to engage in public sphere acts over time to mitigate climate change.

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.

scholarly journals Impact of climate change on phenology of Delonix regia (Bojer ex Hook.) Raf. across Mumbai

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suraliwala Farhan ◽  
Gopalkrishnan Bindu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Flowering Time ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Cassia Fistula ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Delonix Regia ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Samanea Saman ◽  
Over Time

The average annual temperatures are gradually increasing over time since few decades. This has led to global warming and change in climate. The increase in temperature has not only affected the humans but the flora too. In many flowering plants the temperature has altered the phenology (timing) of flowering, example Cassia fistula, Samanea saman, Delonix regia etc. An attempt is made to investigate the tree Delonix regia (Bojer ex Hook.) Raf. commonly known as Gulmohar. It is monitored for its flowering time since 2016 to 2019. The area selected for study was Bhayandar, Mira road, Andheri and Vile Parle in Mumbai. The data obtained was further analyzed with the literature from different Flora’s and research papers. The actual flowering time according to the old literature was April to June. Since few years it has been observed that Gulmohar flowered twice i.e. October to December and also April to June. The amount of flowers bloomed during October – December was scanty while mass bloom was witnessed during April to June. The phenology of flowering has shifted earlier in response to warming during October – December. The shift in the timing of flowering may have resulted in reproductive failure in the plant. This behaviour of plants is of great concern. More broadly it is important to mitigate climate change by controlling global warming in order to conserve the D. regia trees. It can be used as bio indicator stating the climate change in Mumbai.

Recycling as seduction: Critiquing the practice of climate-change education from a primary classroom

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Sylvia Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Experienced Teacher ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Primary Classroom ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Insufficient Response ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Recycling is often included in lists of things that can be done to mitigate climate change. Recycling is not a “bad’ thing, but recycling alone is an insufficient response to the complex problems posed by climate change. This article takes the reader through the journey of an experienced teacher who began with a hopeful vision to include climate change in her school’s programme, meandered through a myriad distracting recycling schemes, until she reached a deeper understanding of the barriers to climate change education and the role of emotions in these programmes. The article concludes with her three key lessons for future climate change curriculum projects.

scholarly journals Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Nordhaus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Dice Model ◽  
Over Time

Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations. Up to now, nations have adopted minimal policies to slow climate change. Moreover, there has been no major improvement in emissions trends as of the latest data. The current study uses the updated DICE model to develop new projections of trends and impacts of alternative climate policies. It also presents a new set of estimates of the uncertainties about future climate change and compares the results with those of other integrated assessment models. The study confirms past estimates of likely rapid climate change over the next century if major climate-change policies are not taken. It suggests that it is unlikely that nations can achieve the 2°C target of international agreements, even if ambitious policies are introduced in the near term. The required carbon price needed to achieve current targets has risen over time as policies have been delayed. (JEL Q54, Q58)

scholarly journals Utopia as Topos of Boundaries Erosion between Private & Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Malykhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual

The article covers ideas of public life in ancient Greek philosophy having given rise to discussion on the necessity of separation and rapprochement of public and private spheres. This study rests upon the analysis of ‘publicness’ and ‘privacy’ in the philosophical conceptions of such authors as J. Habermas who deems ‘publicness’ as communication, and H. Arendt who refers to ‘publicness’ as the polis-based worldview. Plato’s dialogue ‘The State’, which can be deemed as the first-ever example of a utopian text, provides us with the most detailed and consistent instance of criticism of the private sphere, the necessity to merge it into public life to create society. Only in this way could society become a model of an ideal polis leading to the common good. The utopism of Plato’s pattern determines characteristics of the entire utopian genre arising from the idea of the individual merging with the state, and the private sphere merging into the public sphere. Plato’s ideal polis is contrasted with the concepts of the state formed by Modern Age liberal thought, which have largely determined modern views on the division of these spheres, leading to a revision of the utopian projects and a change in the relationship between the private and the public therein. A comparison of various utopian texts results in finding out that the utopian idea of the refusal of the private sphere of life in favour of serving the common good contradicts the modern ideal of freedom, which is the reason for its criticism and for the increasing number of texts with an anti-utopian character.

Competitions: From Village to City

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijaya Nagarajan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Multinational Corporation ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City

This chapter describes three very different kōlam competitions in Tamil Nadu. The first is an unofficial, informal, and playful village contest. The second is part of a festival celebrating Āṇṭāḷ, the female saint. The third is a large, official competition in the city of Madurai, cosponsored by a museum, a newspaper, and the multinational corporation Colgate. These larger competitions have thrust the kōlam into the public sphere, revealing the continual reinvention of the kōlam. The author meditates on the difference between the public and private sphere throughout the chapter, how the kōlam ritual oscillates between the two, and how this influences women’s larger role in society.

HOW SENSITIVE ARE US HURRICANE DAMAGES TO CLIMATE? COMMENT ON A PAPER BY W. D. NORDHAUS

2011 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURENS M. BOUWER ◽  
W. J. WOUTER BOTZEN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Maximum Wind Speed ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Data Series ◽  
Maximum Wind ◽  
Hurricane Damage ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Over Time

An article by William D. Nordhaus (2010) in this journal examined the economic impacts by hurricanes in the USA, and the potential impacts of climate change on future hurricane damages. His analyses show that hurricane damages normalized over time for changes in GDP have increased significantly since the year 1900, at a rate of about 3.1% per year. Moreover, the results of Nordhaus show that hurricane damages increase with the ninth power of maximum wind speed, which is considerably higher than findings of other studies. We perform similar statistical analyses with different data series of hurricane damage, which are more accurately corrected for changes in exposure of assets over time. Our results do not indicate an upward trend in hurricane losses since 1900, which is in line with earlier studies, and indicates that climate change has not increased hurricane damage in the past. Moreover, although the relation between damage and maximum wind speed appears to be considerably higher than assumed by other studies, this elasticity is more likely to be the eighth-power of maximum wind speed. This finding is relevant since it implies that future climate change impacts on hurricane damage may be considerably lower than Nordhaus indicates.

A Climate Policy for the Short and Medium Term: Stabilization or Adaptation?

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 667-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indur M. Goklany
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Coastal Wetlands ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Global Impacts ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2. stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate-sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and/or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization. Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate-sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate-sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement “no-regret” emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies. Such a policy would help solve current urgent problems facing humanity while preparing it to face future problems that might be caused by climate change.

More US climate court cases coming

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Supreme Court Justice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Securities Law ◽  
Narrow State ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Subject Climate change litigation in the United States. Significance Following a bench trial, on December 10, New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager ruled against the state of New York in its climate change litigation against ExxonMobil. New York’s failure to prevail on a narrow state securities law claim is not a harbinger of future climate change litigation failures. Impacts Activist investors will seek outright divestiture or pressure companies to confront, accept and mitigate climate change. Some states will try to establish state-level liability; cities and counties will also pursue lawsuits. Meaningful federal-level action will need a Democratic president, yet this is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

2020 IDB Climate Finance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Almeida ◽  
Rossemary Yurivilca
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Investment Fund ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Under the current IDBG Corporate Results Framework (CRF) 2020-2023 (https://crf.iadb.org/en), the IDB committed to reach 30% of the total amount approved (including all lending operations) of climate finance during this period. In 2020, the IDB Group - composed of the IDB, IDB Lab (formerly the Multilateral Investment Fund) and IDB Invest - approved US$3.9 billion in climate finance as per the MDB climate finance tracking methodology. This resource is aimed at development activities carried out by the public and private sectors that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and thus mitigate climate change, and/or that reduce vulnerability to climate change and contribute to an adaptation process. This amount represented 19.5% of the IDB Groups total approved amount for 2020. The IDB only climate finance in 2020 was 15%, equivalent to US$ 2 billion. If the COVID-19 related investments are excluded, the IDB climate finance reached 30%. Changes in demand from countries to respond to the pandemic affected the overall climate finance results by shifting the priority to social and fiscal sectors and to projects that could provide faster liquidity.

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