The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
Anthony Hobley, CTI CEO speech at UN SG Climate Summit, NYC, 23 september 2014CarbonTracker
Anthony Hobley, Carbon Tracker’s CEO, will officially present CTI’s work at the UN SG Climate Summit, Finance Session on 23rd September 2014 in New York.
Global energy intensity, defined as worldwide total energy consumption divided by gross world product, decreased 0.19 percent in 2013. Although this may not seem impressive, considering that energy intensity increased steeply between 2008 and 2010, this small decline continues a much-needed trend toward lower energy intensity, writes Haibing Ma, China Program Manager at the Worldwatch Institute.
The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. Ørsted develops, constructs and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, bioenergy plants and innovative waste-to-energy solutions and provides smart energy products to its customers. Read more..
Anthony Hobley, CTI CEO speech at UN SG Climate Summit, NYC, 23 september 2014CarbonTracker
Anthony Hobley, Carbon Tracker’s CEO, will officially present CTI’s work at the UN SG Climate Summit, Finance Session on 23rd September 2014 in New York.
Global energy intensity, defined as worldwide total energy consumption divided by gross world product, decreased 0.19 percent in 2013. Although this may not seem impressive, considering that energy intensity increased steeply between 2008 and 2010, this small decline continues a much-needed trend toward lower energy intensity, writes Haibing Ma, China Program Manager at the Worldwatch Institute.
The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. Ørsted develops, constructs and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, bioenergy plants and innovative waste-to-energy solutions and provides smart energy products to its customers. Read more..
My presentation at the launch of the Equinor Energy Perspectives 2019 (https://www.equinor.com/en/how-and-why/energy-perspectives.html). I discussed some historical context for an energy transition, but 1.5-2°C into context, & focussed on the future of oil
Global Carbon Budget 2017 (press conference)Glen Peters
The presentation from the press conference of the Global Carbon Budget 2017 launch, with Corinne Le Quéré, myself, and Owen Gaffney (Future Earth) as chair. Webcast available here: https://unfccc.cloud.streamworld.de/webcast/the-global-carbon-budget-2017-and-tracking-progres
I discuss scenarios in three groups: no policy baselines, weak climate policy, and strong policy. Using the carbon budget as a tool, I then discuss why some targets are harder than others. And finally, I frame it in terms of risk.
A presentation on the Social Cost of Carbon at the Norwegian Environmental Agency. I presented on mitigation scenarios with a few reflections on carbon prices and relationship of policy with the SCC.
My presentation at the launch of the Equinor Energy Perspectives 2019 (https://www.equinor.com/en/how-and-why/energy-perspectives.html). I discussed some historical context for an energy transition, but 1.5-2°C into context, & focussed on the future of oil
Global Carbon Budget 2017 (press conference)Glen Peters
The presentation from the press conference of the Global Carbon Budget 2017 launch, with Corinne Le Quéré, myself, and Owen Gaffney (Future Earth) as chair. Webcast available here: https://unfccc.cloud.streamworld.de/webcast/the-global-carbon-budget-2017-and-tracking-progres
I discuss scenarios in three groups: no policy baselines, weak climate policy, and strong policy. Using the carbon budget as a tool, I then discuss why some targets are harder than others. And finally, I frame it in terms of risk.
A presentation on the Social Cost of Carbon at the Norwegian Environmental Agency. I presented on mitigation scenarios with a few reflections on carbon prices and relationship of policy with the SCC.
This presentation explores how climate change alters the pursuit of economic development: the transformation of poor economies and their people into prosperous ones.
This is hardly the first attempt to reconcile the climate agenda with that of economic development. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are significant for defining a dual agenda where development targets for people and planet sit alongside each other in a unifying framework.1 Much commentary focuses on the compatibility of the two agendas. A radical and specious view pits progress on climate change and economic development as strict substitutes and calls for no less than the unravelling of economic development to save the planet.2 Cooler heads point instead to their complementarity: the critical role of economic development in supporting adaptation and the recognition that investments in the green transition will propel economies rather than sacrifice living standards.3
In contrast, this essay takes as its starting point that the goals and salience of economic development are immutable. The question posed here is how the quest for economic development changes in a world gripped by a changing climate. The essay argues that climate change will force three major changes: a reappraisal of the causes of and prospects for development, the rebirth of the economics of transition, and a reformulation of the problem development is trying to solve. In a final section, it asks what these changes could mean for international security and for the community of national and global actors who set policy and strategy in this field.
Introduction to Environment & SustainabilityIsha Chaudhary
1.GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
2.ARTICLES RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTS
3.GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS
4.GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES
5.FAMOUS ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Understanding the climate change and sustainable developmentRuwanNishanthaGamage
Understanding climate change and its consequents are of enormous importance to society. It is important to understanding climate change and sustainable development for making a better place for living. I have been hosted a presentation for school teachers and children about the climate crisis, its impact, and solutions.
ENV GLOBAL FORUM OCT 2016 - Session 3 - Sir David King OECD Environment
ENV GLOBAL FORUM OCT 2016 - Session 3 - Sir David King
“How national governments can deal with large-scale environmental risks and reconcile growth and environment objectives”.
WWF: Policy Expectations for COP 19 WarsawWWF ITALIA
Oggi possiamo salvare il clima e conquistare un futuro di benessere per noi e i nostri figli. Bruciare i combustibili fossili per procurarsi energia e calore ha portato la concentrazione di CO2 in atmosfera ai livelli di 3 milioni di anni fa. Dobbiamo riconquistare l'energia, puntare sulle fonti rinnovabili e l’efficienza energetica. Occorre investire le risorse pubbliche e private nel nostro futuro. E invece i nostri soldi continuano a finanziare il passato fossile. E' ora di cambiare noi, non il clima." Mariagrazia Midulla, Responsabile Clima ed Energia
http://www.wwf.it/riprenditilenergia.cfm
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions that act like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun’s heat and raising temperatures.
The main greenhouse gases that are causing climate change include carbon dioxide and methane. These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. Clearing land and cutting down forests can also release carbon dioxide. Agriculture, oil and gas operations are major sources of methane emissions. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases.
Global Carbon Budget 2017 (Tekna presentation)Glen Peters
A presentation I gave at the launch of the 2°C magazine (in Norwegian). I discuss past trends in carbon dioxide emissions, emission scenarios, and carbon budgets.
http://klimastiftelsen.no/nytt-2c-magasin-operasjon-nullutslipp/
https://energiogklima.no/to-grader
https://www.tekna.no/kursarkiv/frokostseminar-med-tekna-klima-2c-lansering-34982/#om-kurset
Diana Kool discusses the potential impact of climate change on the global economy and financial markets, focusing on energy sources and the growth of renewable forms
In order to assess the European Union's contribution to fight climate change, we should firsthand know/ lay out the conventions signed and international commitment it has agreed to, and find its positioning through a comparison to the rest of the world in terms of results, and various efforts put into this cause.
All data are summarized from the links put in the reference.
Course: Applied economics
Professor: Stefano Usai
13/01/2021
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Faculty members involved with the "Heritage Under Threat" project, a collaboration between the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) and the Universities of Mosul and Iraq are presented with awards by Prof Melissa Leach (IDS), Professor Dr Kossay Al-Ahmady (UoM) and Dr Lukman Hasan (UoD).
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is geared towards improving governance in the oil, gas and minerals sector. The EITI currently includes 53 countries across the world, half of which are in Africa. It is governed by multi-stakeholder coalitions representing business, governments and civil society organisations.
The EITI started out in 2007 by disclosing payments made by companies to governments in the form of license fees, taxes and other payments. Governments in turn disclosed payments they received from companies to identify possible discrepancies in reported revenues. Disclosures under the EITI are now increasingly fine-grained, focusing on identifying beneficial owners, publicising contracts, commodity trading transparency and project level investments. The EITI seeks to tackle corruption, promote accountability, strengthen institutions, and contribute to domestic resource mobilisation. The current approach also highlights gender and environmental considerations in government and company reporting.
Many EITI countries are currently facing a triple crisis occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic: a health emergency, a massive fall in government revenues triggered by oil and commodity price falls, and an economic crisis caused by a huge reduction in global demand. This lecture explores the continued salience of governance and transparency work in the extractives sector during a period of acute global crisis, amid growing constraints on government budgets and capacity, and increasing limitations on civic space and advocacy.
This Sussex Development Lecture addresses this set of issues to place the EITI in a broader perspective as a leading global transparency and accountability initiative.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Global development challenges: towards a politics of hope.
Speaker
Mark Robinson, Executive Director of the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI
The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive, integrated approach to development, centred on social justice, for all of humanity. But how are they being implemented in practice? Too often a piece-meal, sectoral approach is adopted, rooted in modernist assumptions of linear transition and control.
Ian Scoones, IDS researcher and co-director of the STEPS Centre
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals.
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In a recently published book “How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics”, authors Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern examine data spanning seven decades, on Palanpur, a small, village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh in India. Those involved lived in the village for long periods, examining society, politics and institutions as well as economics, providing a unique opportunity to examine these issues in depth.
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This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
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This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
4. The emissions gap
• Global greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2020 and the gap
must be closed by 2030.
• If the emissions gap is not closed by 2030, all hope of 1.5 degrees
is lost & it is very plausible that the goal of a well-below 2°C
temperature increase is also out of reach
• Pathways reflecting current NDCs imply global warming of about
3°C by 2100, with warming continuing afterwards.
• 80- 90% of coal reserves worldwide will need to remain in the
ground, if climate targets are to be reached & approximately 35%
for oil reserves and 50% for gas reserves
• Even assuming all countries fulfill their pledges, it would account
for only about a third of the needed emission reductions to get to
2°C.
16. Business as usual
• Multilateral development banks provided over $9 billion in
public finance for fossil fuel projects in 2016 – with the vast
majority of transactions approved after the Paris Agreement
was reached.
• Clean energy still made up less than a third of multilateral
development bank energy finance in 2016.
• Total MDB finance for oil and gas exploration more than
doubled from 2015 to 2016, from $1.05 billion to $2.15
billion.
• The World Bank Group, European Investment Bank, and
Asian Development Bank were the largest financiers of fossil
fuels in 2016.
Source: Oil Change International Cross Purposes: After Paris,
Multilateral Development Banks Still Funding Billions in Fossil
Fuels 2017.
17. New wine in old bottles: The case of climate-smart agriculture
Agribusiness corporations that promote
synthetic fertilisers, industrial meat
production and large-scale industrial
agriculture – all of which are widely
recognised as contributing to
climate change and undermining the
resilience of farming systems – can and do
call themselves ‘Climate Smart’. (Climate
Smart Agriculture Concerns 2015)
24. Final word
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of
thinking we used when we created them”.
Albert Einstein
25. Stories of positive change
https://www.rapidtransition.org/
Peter Newell
P.J.Newell@sussex.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
Despite growing acknowledgement of the climate crisis, we need to
unpack the nature of that crisis:
For whom is it a crisis? (judging by the lack of action compared with what is required, clearly not everyone sees it is a crisis)
What is it a crisis of? What does it represent? (legitimacy crisis for key tenets of development thinking?)
For me, CC does suggest the ‘limits of (conventional) development’ as ideology and practice.
But it is not just CC that does that. Whole range of issues around inequality and unsustainability of systems of food and agriculture, water and energy to name a few.
The dominant economic system is performing poorly on a range of grounds, though its inability to address CC is certainly one of them.
According to the latest UNEP Emissions Gap report
Just reflecting for a moment on what this would mean- especially for least developed countries- should we fail to get the world on a 2 degree, let alone a 1.5 pathway.
Clearly – this degree of CC amounts to development in reverse
Given the scale of the challenge, understandably therefore triggered a debate about whether the dominant economic system is fit for purpose in terms of tackling climate change.
Naomi Klein suggested in her book ‘This changes everything’. But does it?
It is helpful at this point to return to the origins of the CC problem to understand the links to development and the intertwined histories of these two crises.
Understanding where we have come from, why things are the way they are, helps us to assess the prospects of reform or transformation
The origins of the climate crisis- understood as industrial lock- are found in the rapid expansion in the use of fossil fuels at the time of the industrial revolution.
But, as Andreas Malm has shown, this was not as conventionally assumed, about coal-fired steam offering a cheaper or more abundant source of energy, but the superior control of labour that it afforded. Allowing capital to concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours.
Not only is this story interesting and important in terms of how lock-in was created, but also in relation to the narrative that has been constructed about how to undo it and create a new (low carbon) industrial revolution by:
-creating new sites of accumulation for capital particularly by engaging finance capital
-stimulating and accelerating waves of creative destruction
-allowing the market to determine which energy sources and technologies should prevail
On one level this is obviously a generic problem of human impact on the climate system.
But on another, we can be much more specific. Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions including Chevron, Exxon, Shell and BP according to a study by Richard Heede published in the journal Climatic Change.
More worrying still, half of the estimated emissions were produced just in the past 25 years – well past the date when governments and corporations became aware that rising greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal and oil were causing dangerous climate change
In so far as the contemporary notion of development was invented (as Escobar and others claim) with President Truman’s declaration in his inaugural address in 1949 that ‘greater production is the key to prosperity and peace’ and to relieving the suffering of those in poverty- coincided with great acceleration.
At very moment of its inception, development in reverse was set in train
As we can see here….
Fordism, mass consumerism and then globalisation intensified and globalised these modes of extraction and exchange.
Not of course a static picture.
With globalisation….seen new geopolitical landscape of emissions
What these national figures disguise are the global inequalities that always bedevil development progress
Again, the problem is not just CC…
However contestable the planetary boundaries concept might be, the trends it describes provide warning signs about the unsustainable trajectory of the global economy which
You might have thought this would create a crisis of legitimacy and perhaps should trigger reflection and revision to prevailing development orthodoxies.
But has it?
CC just latest legitimacy crisis for BW institutions- managed to ride out anti-globalisation movement
But proscriptions and orthodoxies increasingly under threat
So where do we go from here?
Not fetishing one agreement or arena
Mis-match between this terrain of conflict
Climate change
Un-burnable carbon
Commodification- forests, oceans