Climate Change Policies - Science topic

In recent years, from the many studies conducted in the problem of the sources and effects of climate change, it has become clear that the process of global warming continues to accelerate, that industrial and energy global greenhouse gas emissions remain high, that the scale of the negative effects of progressive climate change continues to expand, that the risk of permanently exceeding the level of 2 deg. C of average atmospheric temperature relative to the level before the first industrial (technological) revolution, and that the ever-accelerating process of global warming may irreversibly spiral out of control, may irreversibly become an irreversible process, and will do so within the next few decades. A new report by the humanitarian organization Oxfam shows that in 2019 the richest part of the world's population. accounting for 1 percent of humanity, emitted as much carbon dioxide as two-thirds of the Earth's population. According to the aforementioned Oxfam report, the richest 1 percent of people accounted for 16 percent of the world's total CO2 emissions in 2019. According to the humanitarian organization Oxfam, additional, appropriate and adequate taxation of the super-rich would help reduce both climate change and inequality. According to Oxfam's projections, increased CO2 emissions will lead to up to 1.3 million deaths from excessive heat. Most of these will occur between 2020 and 30. Oxfam Executive Director Amitabh Behar said that "the super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet, causing humanity to suffocate from extreme heat, floods and drought." In addition to this, Oxfam Executive Director Amitabh Behar also stated that "For years we have been fighting to end the fossil fuel era to save millions of lives and our planet. (It is now) clearer than ever that this will be impossible until we also end the era of extreme wealth." "Not taxing the rich allows the richest to steal from us, ruin our planet and deviate from democracy. Taxing extreme wealth changes our chances of fighting both inequality and the climate crisis. Trillions of dollars are at stake to invest in dynamic, green 21st century governments, but also to strengthen our democracies." In view of the above, it is essential to impose additional taxes on the richest who own industrial corporations that emit greenhouse gases, and with the money raised, renewable and emission-free energy sources should be developed, and those regions of the world that are most threatened by permanent heat, water shortages, floods and other negative effects of ongoing climate change, including, above all, the accelerating process of global warming, should be secured. In recent days there has been another very disturbing development for the future of humanity, the future of the biosphere, biodiversity and the planet's climate. More data has emerged to support the thesis that continued high greenhouse gas emissions generated by unsustainable economies, including mainly power generation through the burning of fossil fuels, are accelerating the progressive process of global warming. On 17.11.2023, for the first time, the average temp. of the planet's atmosphere reached 2 degrees C more compared to the state before the 1st industrial (technological) revolution. In view of the above, saving biodiversity, the biosphere and the planet for future generations of people should be implemented according to at least two strategies. One strategy for saving the biosphere and the planet's climate is the need to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy, including, first and foremost, the green transformation of the energy sector, including the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources. The second parallel strategy for saving the planet's biosphere and climate is the creation of new technological solutions, green technologies, eco-innovations, security systems, which will reduce the scale of the negative effects of the progressive process of global warming and reduce the negative impact on communities of such negative effects of climate change as increasingly severe heat, longer and longer drought periods, drinking water shortages, violent storms and floods, soil barrenness and such serious problems that can be associated with the aforementioned negative effects as epidemics and high levels of environmental pollution.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion on this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

I am looking to understand how the UK government's climate change policies have affected OPEC and the oil industry since the 2008 climate change act.

I am doing a research related to the link of biodiversity conservation and climate change policies. I wonder if you can share your experience on how an economic instrument help link biodiversity conservation and climate change policies?

Many thanks

Dear All,

I look forward to her you valuable contribution.

Regard

Fikrat

According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, developing countries bear the brunt of risks associated with climate change. International Climate Financing has increased over the years; however, the question remains how it can be efficiently managed and assessed for its successful implementation.

Kindly provide your valuable feedbacks.

The UN has recommended three broad policy actions to mitigate the global mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. What sources of evidence, available pre-pandemic, may be particularly relevant to guiding the implementation of these recommendations in low-resource settings?

What is the future of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement? Since we, as humanity, are struggling to reduce significantly the emission gap, how the future of interstate climate change negotiations looks like?

Habitat suitability is the initial step during plantation and reforestation drives throughout the globe. In certain developing countries this is not a common practice. Government organizations as well as NGOs must consult expert ecologist of their respective region to get succssful and sustainable results as they conduct a lot of such studies. As an example I would like to mention here that we are doing such studies over the last decade in our regions and these can be found in our research articles. e.g.!

In the context of policy analysis and designing a feasible carbon taxation policy, most studies have been applying some sort of general equilibrium models. I am not from an economics background and these models seem to be very complicated. Also I don't exactly know what data is needed for such modelling approaches. I was wondering if there are any other types of methods that can substitute general equilibrium models in the process of designing a feasible carbon taxation policy.

I would really appreciate any comments and insights.

How to apply the quantitative methodology and which data to collect?

Hello everyone,

Recently, I was looking for some basic article regarding climate modeling, I found some interesting fact that some of the authors considered paleoclimate modeling is a very difficult task as compared to the modern climate modeling. 

I do not understand their argument. I thought paleoclimate modeling is relatively easier because of a single parameter (i.e. natural variability) is involved. However, in modern climate modeling, two components (ie natural as well as anthropogenic) are involved.

Since estuaries are dynamic are environmental conditions vary on spatial and temporal scale, how we study climate change effects?

I need to use these data of RCP. But, I am not sure which one I should use. The link to data portal is http://www.cccma.ec.gc.ca/data/cgcm4/CanESM2/rcp26/day/atmos/clt/index.shtml

Can anyone tell me the difference between these files?

As we know, some island countries like Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Maldives risk disappearing because of the climatic changes. Do you know of any solution adopted by island countries to avoid their disappearance caused by climate change?

What does it mean to be a "steward"?

We are interested to know the fullest background to this study since just ten dys ago the Russian Federation and the Chinese Peoples Republic seemingl;y have agreed to fund a procedure for transfering water from Lake Baikal to the North Erstern Provinces in China. Whilst this may not be the same question as you have raised here, we have acrually raised the more important one about the wishes to refill the Aral Sea in this argument as it would - we feel - be comparable to your premised arguments. Do you see the analogy? Why we ask is very relevant since there are signs that by rehabilitating this sea you will have the answers you are seeking.

Research Questions or Hypotheses:

·         Are there any change in climatic variable, if yes what are and how?

·         Which are the area under flood or waterlogging or both, what are the causes of it.

·         Who are vulnerable to climate change, flood and waterlogging and how they are vulnerable.

·         What are the copping mechanism of the community?

·         What are the mitigation measure undertaken by the community?

·         What ate the adaptive strategy at individual, Household and community level.at the  

hello scholars,

what method; be it statistics, mathematical or modeling approach can I use to determine the part of a basin/watershed that is most affected by the combined impact of climate and land use change or their individual impact

This is one of the concerns foreseen by Nemade about the probable disadvantages of nativism in India. 

Based on observed data 1976-2011, I got a model to estimate crop productivity like: Y= 0.18*time - 0.005*time^2 + 0.15*temp + 2.33. and then I want to estimate the impacts of climate change (high temperature) by 2100. Please note that [0.18*time - 0.005*time^2] is called technological trend/progress.

The issue for me is [0.19*time - 0.005*time^2] will be negative when time=39. if I set time = since 1976, time=38 corresponds with 2015. Any suggestion to prevent negative values of [0.18*time - 0.005*time^2] ?

Please list any related papers

Im trying to develop a tool-kit for the courts for adjudicating climate change justice.

The International Community has adopted a commendable Agreement on tackling climate change in Paris last December. While the deal has a number of ambiguous provisions and non-binding provisions, the document is very progressive and has galvanized the consensus of all the UN member states, perhaps for the first time ever when such concurrence is achieved at this scale. 

The question is how can Africa, with virtually no contribution to global warming in terms of GHG emission and given its very limited capacity to implement the Intended Nationally Determined Commitments (INDCs) benefit from the Agreement and take active role in its realization of the Paris Agreement in the coming 15 years.

Kebede Kassa Tsegaye, PhD

Team Leader for the Formulation of the IGAD Regional 

Climate Change Strategy (IRCCS)

Climate experts, Environmentalists, Ecologists, Foresters

Governments worldwide choose their concrete developer friends over long-term, beneficial alternatives. How can we, as planners and scientists, approach this problem? What are some of the tools we have at our disposal? In effect - how can we battle such strong opponents? Please tell me your stories and thoughts. Thank you.

All the country focus on Climate Change and have action plan. Referring to India NAPCC have sub components in Mission Mode. Some developing countries are refining their Action Plan. Share your comments on NAPCC achievements and your suggestion for refinement.

I am aware of country level deep decarbonisation pathways. For this body of work looking explicitly at business level decarbonisation. Thankyou.

Simulation of costs of climate policies into the future (2100) turns a -ve Mean value for a particular policy, out of four, what would be the best explanation for this -ve Cost?

Also, for this policy, the standard deviation is much higher with respect to the Mean, how do you explain this considering all the policies are run under the same simulation condition and the source data are secondary from a very reputable repository?

In my opinion, not all the adaptations are a response to climate change. For example, late sowing, attributed always as a response to changing climate, may be, most of the time, an outcome of crop intensification. When we are cropping multiple crops the sowing of these crops may shift early or late which actually is not a response to climate change. Similar to this, what other adaptation you think are not a response to climate change

I am interested in comparing the learning process and adaptive cycle in the context of cities working together in transnational city networks for climate action. Lee and van de Meene (2012) conceptualized the learning process into three phases (information gathering, adoption, policy change) in their network analysis study. I would like to look further into urban policy change and whether TCNs are a necessary condition to catalyze cities building resilience against sea-level rise. I think a better understanding of the phases of the adaptive cycle would be useful. I would appreciate any assistance.

I have accessed the one for Norway and know other nordic countries have their own plans. I am also interested in other European countries.

I would be grateful if you could send the link to the plan(s) on SLCP or information on who to contact for the request.

Traditional EIA application used for project level probably not include climate change aspects. Nowadays; it is important to include climate change and mitigation aspects in the EIA application. So I want to know the space of climate change aspect broadly in EIA cycle and applicability of climate change within environmental management tool. Any research and practices conducted worldwide!

As distinct from State/local council policy & guidelines & theoretical modelling  for climate change and coastal recession,I am interested in looking at adaptive or barrier based models specific to identified "at risk" locations on the Western Victorian Coastline. Sandy beach front communities in particular with minimal land area for urban expansion.  

Consider also maternal mortality.

The trend of the anomaly of global land surface temperature (GLST) had been numerically simulated perfectly by me with a group of simple periodic mathematics functions, which is obtained  with a numerical-functional-analysis-modelling technique in a computer. The result means the modern climate change may be not dominated by human influences due to  the function which perfectly fits the actuate anomaly of GLST from 1880 to 2013, is periodic rather than an irreversible function.

  Do you agree my view?

Recent reviews on climate change adaptation have indicated that there are many cases where strategies and plans have been developed, but not yet implemented. 

In the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, Working Group II - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, some common barriers are identified from the research literature, including institutional barriers, unclear technical and policy guidance, and weak coordination among various interests in management and governance. 

How important is scientific uncertainty?  Is implementation cost a significant barrier? Some studies discuss the idea of strengthening response capacity or resilience, but what does this mean in practice?  Is direct linkage with sustainable development plans important? Do we need more research on planning processes, or should the focus be on the study of adaptation goals themselves, the trade-offs between goals, or the comparative assessment of effectiveness of adaptation strategies within future scenarios of climate change?  

Or, is the real concern more about barriers in communication with local stakeholders, including practitioners, knowledge holders and decision makers? Is this more important than research gaps themselves? How could a collaborative research approach with stakeholders better enable science-based decision making on climate change adaptation? 

I am especially interested in non-state options such as micro finance and crowd funding of climate change adaptation projects.

As per my information about the carbon credits, they are usually given to industries or corporates which are saving it by growing trees or by adopting method which will reduce release of carbon in the environment. Please tell me can these be given to farmers engaged in growing crops which sequester maximum carbon from the environment.

What is the IPCC estimate of radiative effect of natural aerosols? I have found their estimate for anthropogenic, but not for natural aerosols.

I would like to know if there are differences between the IPCC 2001 and IPCC 2007 characterization factors for global warming. I would also appreciate if you could recommend me some document to justify these differences.

Thanks in advance!

In recent years, the term resilience has gained importance in the literature on climate change replacing the concept of vulnerability which, for several decades, allowed to reveal the social origin of disasters but, How can the participation of society can be addressed in each of them? Or are they just antonyms?

En los últimos años, el término resiliencia ha cobrado importancia en la literatura sobre cambio climático, reemplazando al concepto de vulnerabilidad el cual, desde hace algunas décadas permitió revelar el origen social de los desastres, pero ¿cómo se puede abordar la participación de la sociedad en cada uno de ellos? O ¿simplemente son antónimos?

Dear colleagues, good morning

I would like to conduct a research on the differences between environmental policies in different countries. I am a professor of environmental policy and legislation in Brazil and I'm interested in checking out the environmental legislation somehow affects economic development. The goal is to develop a scientific article.

kind regards,

In many south Asian countries including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, women farmers are playing an important role in agriculture. With effects of climatic change more visible and severe than ever, women are evolving their own mechanisms to fight the after effects to mitigate the risk and uncertainty. What are your views on challenges faced by the women and strategies adopted by them to minimize the risk and uncertainty in agricultural production. Any links to studies on this topic are welcome.

I am trying to figure out whether a CO2 (GHG) emission reduction goal of -60% by 2030 is feasible for Switzerland and am happy to have any inputs, reading advice etc. Thanks!

I need to know how adaptable a community to climate change, so I need to understand how to measure values of vulnerability, risks, hazard, CDF and exposures.

Climate change adaptation.

Climate change has a multidimensional impact on human and natural environment. Since its effect is widespread in terms of geographical area and victims, it is challenging to specifically measure and investigate its linkage with intended outcome variables.

I am interested in how local culture, indigenous knowledge (IK) and 'traditional perspectives' can influence community adaptation pathways in the face of climate change. I believe that culture and IK can both be an enabling factor and a constraint to effective and appropriate adaptation to climate change. I believe that communities should be enabled to plan for their own self-driven development, and that in addition to being appropriate to current and future climate change projections, adaptation strategies should be appropriate and sensitive to the local culture, socio-economic circumstances and geographic environment. I am interested in the community-based adaptation (CBA) approach, and how this can effectively account for local cultural considerations through appropriate policy. I will be exploring these questions through ethnographic fieldwork with an indigenous community in coastal Bangladesh.

I am looking for approaches and perspectives that challenge the mainstream understanding of climate change adaptation promoted by the UNFCCC, IPCC, most international organizations and national governments.

Whether there is any climate change for a certain specific area. This can be question in the mind of a water resources engineer like me, or even in the mind of a common man. Is it better to search for the answer by analyzing local data or to use some statistical downscaling methodologies applied to regional climate change parameters?

It is obvious that the newly released summary of the IPCC report pinpointed (now with clear remarks on uncertainties) several important challenges with respect to global climate change. Several COP meetings are ahead of us. Do we really expect that the global authorities will be able to cope with these challenges ?

I went to some websites such as NOAA / PCMDI and other similar websites, but I don't know how to find relevant data and download it.

Basic carbon cycle research is needed to better understand what the impact of human activities is on our Earth’s ecosystem and climate functioning. While that research is going on, critical decisions are being made at all levels of society, from international organizations and national governments down to individual businesses and households. We cannot afford to wait until all necessary research is done to begin to provide usable science that meets the needs of these decision makers. Producing usable science requires choices about the management of science and the kinds of questions asked right from the start of the research program.

Does anyone know of social science approaches that provide analysis of policy needs across the diverse community of climate decision makers? At the moment, it seems that the policy community is vast and diverse, while the carbon cycle research community is focused on very specific questions that are cannot address the immediate needs of the decision makers.

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