A Meaningful U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Climate Change

AbstractClimate change is a global environmental problem which has been addressed primarily at the multilateral level. However, national, supranational, and even subnational action on the issue has also sprung up. At the subnational level, California (United States) and Acre (Brazil) offer an interesting example of how domestic policies may be linked in order to address climate change. Based on a memorandum of understanding concluded in 2010, these two states have been working towards the possible linkage of their respective climate change policies, in essence providing a pathway for using emissions offset credits that are generated in Acre through reductions of forest-based emissions in the Californian cap-and-trade programme. Taking into account that this is an ongoing process, this commentary provides a general overview of the issue from the perspective of international law.

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Speaking of Psychology: Psychologists Address Climate Change

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e500072020-001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kaitlin Luna ◽

Kim Mills ◽

Brian Dixon ◽

Marcel de Sousa ◽

Christine Roland Levy ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Address Climate Change

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Instant gratification may impede collective efforts to address climate change

Editage Insights ◽

10.34193/ei-r-6465 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Editage Insights

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Address Climate Change

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What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s153759272000479x ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Lauren Honig ◽

Amy Erica Smith ◽

Jaimie Bleck

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Religious Groups ◽

State Repression ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Policy Responses ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

History Of ◽

Muslim Communities ◽

Critical Link

Addressing climate change requires coordinated policy responses that incorporate the needs of the most impacted populations. Yet even communities that are greatly concerned about climate change may remain on the sidelines. We examine what stymies some citizens’ mobilization in Kenya, a country with a long history of environmental activism and high vulnerability to climate change. We foreground efficacy—a belief that one’s actions can create change—as a critical link transforming concern into action. However, that link is often missing for marginalized ethnic, socioeconomic, and religious groups. Analyzing interviews, focus groups, and survey data, we find that Muslims express much lower efficacy to address climate change than other religious groups; the gap cannot be explained by differences in science beliefs, issue concern, ethnicity, or demographics. Instead, we attribute it to understandings of marginalization vis-à-vis the Kenyan state—understandings socialized within the local institutions of Muslim communities affected by state repression.

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Behaviour change to address climate change

Current Opinion in Psychology ◽

10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lorraine Whitmarsh ◽

Wouter Poortinga ◽

Stuart Capstick

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Behaviour Change ◽

Address Climate Change

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Special Issue “Levering Sustainable Food Systems to Address Climate Change (Pandemics and Other Shocks and Hazards): Possible Transformations”

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158206 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8206

Author(s):

Andrew Spring ◽

Erin Nelson ◽

Irena Knezevic ◽

Patricia Ballamingie ◽

Alison Blay-Palmer

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Systems ◽

Special Issue ◽

Sustainable Food Systems ◽

Sustainable Food ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

The World

Since we first conceived of this Special Issue, “Levering Sustainable Food Systems to Address Climate Change—Possible Transformations”, COVID-19 has turned the world upside down [...]

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