Participatory Approaches to Forest Carbon Accounting to Mitigate Climate Change, Conserve Biodiversity, and Promote Sustainable Development

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The paper consists of two main sections. The first section reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development and analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. The second part assessed the coverage level of climate change education for sustainability in national educational standards, curricula and textbooks in Mongolia. To evaluate the coverage level, the team defined the concepts and coverage of Climate change education (CCE), Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and Education for sustainable development (ESD) and developed the indicators to analyze CCE/DRR/ESD content coverage on the curricula and textbooks.

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Close to a Tipping Point? The Amazon and the Challenge of Sustainable Development under Growing Climate Pressures

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x20000577 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 467-494

Author(s):

Joana C. Pereira ◽

Eduardo Viola

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Forest Conservation ◽

Technological Revolution ◽

Conservation Policies ◽

The Social ◽

Environmental Diplomacy ◽

Mitigate Climate Change

AbstractThis commentary examines the challenge of sustainable development in the Amazon, arguing that global efforts to mitigate climate change and current Amazonian policies are clearly inadequate to prevent global warming and deforestation from tipping the forest into a savanna. It analyses the growing climate pressures jeopardising the Amazon's resilience; the erratic Brazilian, Bolivian, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian governance of the forest; and the failure of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to establish long-term forest conservation policies in the region. The research demonstrates that the ‘savannisation hypothesis’ is potentially closer to reality than most debates in the social sciences assume and should be considered seriously. The commentary concludes by suggesting possible pathways for preventing the dieback of the Amazon. These are based on three strategic axes: the strengthening of the ACTO, the promotion of a technological revolution in the forest, and a progressive environmental diplomacy by the Amazonian countries.

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Policy Provisions and Teachers' Needs on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

Sustainable Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3817-2.ch014 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 271-283

Author(s):

Navchaa Tugjamba ◽

Batchuluun Yembuu ◽

Amarbayasgalan Gantumur ◽

Uranchimeg Getsel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Teacher Training ◽

Research Team ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Education For Sustainable Development ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Climate Change Education ◽

Mitigate Climate Change

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The present research team reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development. To strengthen public awareness of climate change and sustainable development, teachers at all level must play an important role. The team analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. Education policy recommendations and the possibilities for teacher training were defined.

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Accessing Performance of Transport Sector Considering Risks of Climate Change and Traffic Accidents: Joint Bounded-Adjusted Measure and Luenberger Decomposition

10.21203/rs.3.rs-460622/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Xiaodong Chen ◽

Jiahao Zhu ◽

Fang Wang

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Traffic Accident ◽

Traffic Accidents ◽

Energy Use ◽

Transport Sector ◽

Productivity Change ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Mitigate Climate Change

Abstract Green transformation of energy use in China’s transport sector will promote sustainable development in the country. This paper extends the Bounded-adjusted Measure and Luenberger indicators to detect the performance of China’s inland transport sector across 2006–2015. In the framework, the climate change and traffic accident risks are taken as undesirable outputs. In addition, source-specific and variable-specific decomposition are proposed for investigating the sources of inefficiency and productivity, and quantifying the contributions of climate change and traffic accident risks. This paper opens up the “black box” of technological progress, identifying the different channels (i.e., quantity and time dimensions) through which affect economic growth. Therefore, policymakers can find out the most effective pathway to boost productivity growth and mitigate climate change and traffic accident risks in transport sector, which are ignored in the conventional framework. Empirical results indicate great variances exist among 30 provinces in inefficiency scores, productivity change and technological progress. Hence, classified regulations help to tackle this issue. We cluster 30 provinces into 4 groups according to their technological progress along quantity and time dimensions. Variable-wise, CO2 emission-reduction and civil vehicles gains promote the TFP gains most. Also, we verify that economic development and environmental regulations can coordinate to promote the sustainable development of transport sector.

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Carbon sequestration in managed temperate coniferous forests under climate change

Biogeosciences ◽

10.5194/bg-13-1933-2016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 1933-1947 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Caren C. Dymond ◽

Sarah Beukema ◽

Craig R. Nitschke ◽

K. David Coates ◽

Robert M. Scheller

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Coniferous Forest ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Forest Products ◽

Carbon Dynamics ◽

Forest Carbon ◽

Carbon Accounting ◽

Carbon Sinks ◽

Wide Range ◽

Growing Conditions

Abstract. Management of temperate forests has the potential to increase carbon sinks and mitigate climate change. However, those opportunities may be confounded by negative climate change impacts. We therefore need a better understanding of climate change alterations to temperate forest carbon dynamics before developing mitigation strategies. The purpose of this project was to investigate the interactions of species composition, fire, management, and climate change in the Copper–Pine Creek valley, a temperate coniferous forest with a wide range of growing conditions. To do so, we used the LANDIS-II modelling framework including the new Forest Carbon Succession extension to simulate forest ecosystems under four different productivity scenarios, with and without climate change effects, until 2050. Significantly, the new extension allowed us to calculate the net sector productivity, a carbon accounting metric that integrates aboveground and belowground carbon dynamics, disturbances, and the eventual fate of forest products. The model output was validated against literature values. The results implied that the species optimum growing conditions relative to current and future conditions strongly influenced future carbon dynamics. Warmer growing conditions led to increased carbon sinks and storage in the colder and wetter ecoregions but not necessarily in the others. Climate change impacts varied among species and site conditions, and this indicates that both of these components need to be taken into account when considering climate change mitigation activities and adaptive management. The introduction of a new carbon indicator, net sector productivity, promises to be useful in assessing management effectiveness and mitigation activities.

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Research Study on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch050 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1004-1026

Author(s):

Navchaa Tugjamba ◽

Batchuluun Yembuu ◽

Amarbayasgalan Gantumur ◽

Uranchimeg Gezel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Education For Sustainable Development ◽

Education For Sustainability ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Coverage Level ◽

Climate Change Education ◽

Content Coverage ◽

Mitigate Climate Change

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The paper consists of two main sections. The first section reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development and analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. The second part assessed the coverage level of climate change education for sustainability in national educational standards, curricula and textbooks in Mongolia. To evaluate the coverage level, the team defined the concepts and coverage of Climate change education (CCE), Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and Education for sustainable development (ESD) and developed the indicators to analyze CCE/DRR/ESD content coverage on the curricula and textbooks.

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Policy Provisions and Teachers' Needs on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management ◽

10.4018/ijabim.2016100103 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 36-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Navchaa Tugjamba ◽

Batchuluun Yembuu ◽

Amarbayasgalan Gantumur ◽

Uranchimeg Getsel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Teacher Training ◽

Research Team ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Education For Sustainable Development ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Climate Change Education ◽

Mitigate Climate Change

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The present research team reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development. To strengthen public awareness of climate change and sustainable development, teachers at all level must play an important role. The team analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. Education policy recommendations and the possibilities for teacher training were defined.

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Carbon sequestration in managed temperate coniferous forests under climate change

Biogeosciences Discussions ◽

10.5194/bgd-12-20283-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (24) ◽

pp. 20283-20321 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C. C. Dymond ◽

S. Beukema ◽

C. R. Nitschke ◽

K. D. Coates ◽

R. M. Scheller

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Coniferous Forest ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Forest Products ◽

Carbon Dynamics ◽

Forest Carbon ◽

Carbon Accounting ◽

Carbon Sinks ◽

Wide Range ◽

Growing Conditions

Abstract. Management of temperate forests has the potential to increase carbon sinks and mitigate climate change. However, those opportunities may be confounded by negative climate change impacts. We therefore need a better understanding of climate change alterations to temperate forest carbon dynamics before developing mitigation strategies. The purpose of this project was to investigate the interactions of species composition, fire, management and climate change on the Copper–Pine creek valley, a temperate coniferous forest with a wide range of growing conditions. To do so, we used the LANDIS-II modelling framework including the new Forest Carbon Succession extension to simulate forest ecosystems under four different productivity scenarios, with and without climate change effects, until 2050. Significantly, the new extension allowed us to calculate the Net Sector Productivity, a carbon accounting metric that integrates above and below-ground carbon dynamics, disturbances, and the eventual fate of forest products. The model output was validated against literature values. The results implied that the species optimum growing conditions relative to current and future conditions strongly influenced future carbon dynamics. Warmer growing conditions led to increased carbon sinks and storage in the colder and wetter ecoregions but not necessarily in the others. Climate change impacts varied among species and site conditions and this indicates that both of these components need to be taken into account in when considering climate change mitigation activities and adaptive management. The introduction of a new carbon indicator – Net Sector Productivity, promises to be useful in assessing management effectiveness and mitigation activities.

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