scholarly journals Humanity Can Still Stop Climate Change by Implementing a New International Climate Agreement and Applying Radical New Technology

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 6703
Author(s):  
Zvonimir Glasnovic ◽  
Karmen Margeta ◽  
Nataša Zabukovec Logar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
International Climate

There is a broad consensus worldwide that anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact. Likewise, the fact is that the UN’s efforts to address climate change over the last 28 years have not been successful enough. It is evident that the global average temperature is on the rise (1.1 °C above pre-industrial levels in 2019). A particular concern comes from the fact that the Paris Agreement on keeping increases in the global average temperature to below +2 °C is an unenforceable ambition, since the focus is more on consequences than causes. In addition, economic policies regarding global taxes, as well as adaptation and mitigation measures, are questionable, as there is no evidence that changes in the climate system will proceed at the same rate in the coming years. This paper proposes an engineering approach that considers all relevant aspects of the climate change problem and proposes a new policy, named the “Climate New Deal”. It deals with: (i) Reorientation from a high-carbon economy to a green economy; (ii) The intensive use of radically new technology, e.g., “Seawater Steam Engine” technology for the simultaneous production of thermal and electric energy and drinking water; and (iii) The intensive use of energy efficient technologies and RES technologies, especially in transport.

scholarly journals International climate change negotiation: the role of Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-395
Author(s):  
Marcela Cardoso Guilles Da Conceição ◽  
Renato de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues ◽  
Fernanda Reis Cordeiro ◽  
Fernando Vieira Cesário ◽  
Gracie Verde Selva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
International Negotiation ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Essential Condition ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
International Climate ◽  
International Climate Change

The increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere raises the average temperature of the planet, triggering problems that threaten the survival of humans. Protecting the global climate from the effects of climate change is an essential condition for sustaining life. For this reason, governments, scientists, and society are joining forces to propose better solutions that could well-rounded environmentally, social and economic development relationships. International climate change negotiations involve many countries in establishing strategies to mitigate the problem. Therefore, understanding international negotiation processes and how ratified agreements impact a country is of fundamental importance. The purpose of this paper is to systematize information about how climate negotiations have progressed, detailing key moments and results, analyzing the role that Brazil played in the course of these negotiations and the country’s future perspectives.

International Debate Over Geoengineering and Geoengineering Governance

2017 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750020
Author(s):  
Ying CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
International Debate ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Face ◽  
Heated Debate

In the face of the severe challenge of global climate change, all countries find it difficult to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2[Formula: see text]C above pre-industrial levels, let alone 1.5[Formula: see text]C. In recent years, geoengineering has gained increasingly more attention from the international community as an unconventional option to deal with climate change, and it has also provoked heated debates. This paper attempts to sort out related concepts, the focus of controversies and the research progress in terms of geoengineering, analyzes the international background of heated debate over geoengineering, probes into the governance of geoengineering under the framework of coping with climate change, and offers some suggestions for China to make strategic plans for geoengineering development.

scholarly journals Lithium-Ion Batteries: Latest Advances and Prospects

Batteries ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Lithium Ion Batteries ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2

The anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), has resulted in a notable climate change and an increase in global average temperature since the mid-20th century [...]

The Problem

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-54
Author(s):  
Eelco J. Rohling
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Greenhouse Effect ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Regional Impacts ◽  
Business As Usual

This chapter frames the problem of climate change. It opens with a brief overview of Earth’s energy balance and the greenhouse effect and then outlines the root causes of the problem along with key controls in the climate system that determine its responses. This is followed by an introduction of spatial variability and fluctuations through time in the expressions of climate change, which are key to understanding regional impacts. Such geographic and temporal variations do not invalidate the existence of the global average temperature increase, but merely cause fluctuations around the global average. Finally, the chapter shows that achieving the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit will require the removal of 260–1030 billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The low-end estimate applies to best-case scenarios and the high-end estimate to scenarios where business-as-usual (as in the past two decades) emissions are allowed until 2030 or beyond.

scholarly journals Near-Term Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Near Future

Earth is in the midst of abrupt, irreversible climate change. The current global-average temperature of Earth is the highest ever with Homo sapiens present, and there is no demonstrated way to stabilize or reduce the planetary temperature. This paper describes a few means by which habitat for humans could be lost in the near future.

Graubündens Wald im Fokus | Focus on the Grisons forest

2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (7) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Reto Hefti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Form Part ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Government

In the mountainous canton Grisons, much visited by tourists, the forest has always had an important role to play. New challenges are now presenting themselves. The article goes more closely into two themes on the Grisons forestry agenda dominating in the next few years: the increased use of timber and climate change. With the increased demand for logs and the new sawmill in Domat/Ems new opportunities are offered to the canton for more intensive use of the raw material, wood. This depends on a reduction in production costs and a positive attitude of the population towards the greater use of wood. A series of measures from the Grisons Forestry Department should be of help here. The risk of damage to infrastructure is particularly high in a mountainous canton. The cantonal government of the Grisons has commissioned the Forestry Department to define the situation concerning the possible consequences of global warming on natural hazards and to propose measures which may be taken. The setting up of extensive measurement and information systems, the elaboration of intervention maps, the estimation of the danger potential in exposed areas outside the building zone and the maintenance of existing protective constructions through the creation of a protective constructions register, all form part of the government programme for 2009 to 2012. In the Grisons, forest owners and visitors will have to become accustomed to the fact that their forests must again produce more wood and that, on account of global warming, protective forests will become even more important than they already are today.

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