The Complexities of SDGs Goal 5 and 13 in ASEAN Region: A Comparative Study between Balinese and Cambodian Women Campaign on Climate Action

A “lifeline out of the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 crisis”? An ecofeminist critique of the European Green Deal

In light of new data presented in the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which emphasizes the increasingly important and urgent need for a global response to the ecological and climate crisis, what role can Christian ethics, religious leaders, and people of faith play in responding to the climate challenge? While understanding scientific data on climate change is incredibly important for interpreting the “signs of the times,” most people approach everyday life in terms of the deeply held values and beliefs—the stories that orient and guide human decision-making. This article notes both the value and limits of scientific literacy, while highlighting the importance of narratives, worldviews, and religion in motivating communities to take action on climate change.

Reconciling climate action with the need for biodiversity protection, restoration and rehabilitation.

This research is at the ontological level of implementing logistic disaster management that is very significant in reducing the risk of natural disaster in Indonesia. The problem is very interesting to examine by conducting descriptive qualitative research. Sharpening the research was using the theory of public policy, collaborative governance, and supply chain management for logistics improvement. Data were collected using in-depth interviews with several key informants, direct observation, and related documentation. Data were analyzed using interactive models in data reduction, data display, and data verification supported by triangulation employed to obtain validity and reliability. The results were based on ontology, epistemology, and sociology research by empowering the logistic and equipment distribution for natural disaster and disaster management in Indonesia. Vision and mission of public policies related to natural disasters are needed to complete the facilities of prevention, equipment management, and logistics supervision, provide information to stakeholders regarding regulations and sanctions in natural disaster management that were carried out deliberately, and balance the provision of disaster management. Therefore, it will produce revised and detailed relevant regulations and state agencies as public officials in making natural disaster and disaster management regulations in Indonesia. The researchers suggested that relevant state institutions as public officials in making regulations on natural disaster management in Indonesia should form regulations and institutions to cover the collaborative governance of natural disaster reduction.

This research article explores the critical role women play in accelerating progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13: Climate Action, in Africa with particular reference to Nigeria. Due to gendered vulnerabilities stemming from social, economic, and cultural challenges, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change. Despite these obstacles, women play a critical role as change agents in the fight against climate change through policy campaigns, community involvement, and sustainable practices. The study's goal is to examine how African women, especially those in Nigeria, contribute to the advancement of SDG 13, consider obstacles that prevent them from fully participating, and offer practical ways to increase their impact. Guided by Ecofeminism and Gender and Development (GAD) theoretical frameworks, the study underscores how gender and environmental justice are intertwined, drawing the connections between the exploitation of nature and the subjugation of women, as well as the significance of including gender views in development planning. The method of data collection was secondary involving the review of over 30 relevant literatures on the subject via textbooks, journal articles, and other internet materials. Findings show that although women and women-led initiatives in Africa, particularly Nigeria, are essential to grassroots mobilization and climate action, they encounter structural obstacles like cultural limitations, a lack of political and financial resources, poor access to education, and networking opportunities which hinder their ability to advance climate action and attain expected sustainability. The study suggests capacity-building programs to improve women's leadership roles, gender-responsive climate policy, and more funding for women- led projects and education. Positioning women as key players in tackling Nigeria's climate crisis is essential, as it would promote inclusive climate resilience, and in achieving sustainable development.

This purpose of the research are to the analyse the Economic Growth, Education Participation Rate, Urban Population, Population Density, Number of Rainfall in terms of Damage Natural Disasters in Indonesia. This type of research is associative descriptive research. This study is based on data 2015 obtained from institutions and related institution. Methods that being used are Ordinary Least Square (OLS). The estimation results show that Economic Growth has a significant negative effect the Damage Natural Disasters in Indonesia, Education Participation Rate has a not significant effect the Damage Natural Disasters in Indonesia, Urban Population has a significant positive effect the Damage Natural Disasters in Indonesia, Population Density has a not significant effect the Damage Natural Disasters in Indonesia, Number of rainfall has a not significant effect the Damage Natural Disasters in Indonesia. Keywords: Economic Growth, Education Participation Rate, Urban Population, Population Density, Number of Rainfall

Editorial: Governing the EU's climate and energy transition through the 2030 Framework

Climate change is increasingly being framed as a “climate crisis.” Such a crisis could be viewed both to unfold in the climate system, as well as to be induced by it in diverse areas of society. Following from current understandings of modern crises, it is clear that climate change indeed can be defined as a “crisis.” As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1.5oC special report elaborates, the repercussions of a warming planet include increased food insecurity, increased frequency and intensity of severe droughts, extreme heat waves, the loss of coral reef ecosystems and associated marine species, and more. It is also important to note that a range of possible climate-induced crises (through, e.g., possible increased food insecurity and weather extremes) will not be distributed evenly, but will instead disproportionally affect already vulnerable social groups, communities, and countries in detrimental ways. The multifaceted dimensions of climate change allow for multiple interpretations and framings of “climate crisis,” thereby forcing us to acknowledge the deeply contextual nature of what is understood as a “crisis.” Climate change and its associated crises display a number of challenging properties that stem from its connections to basically all sectors in society, its propensity to induce and in itself embed nonlinear changes such as “tipping points” and cascading shocks, and its unique and challenging long-term temporal dimensions. The latter pose particularly difficult decision-making and institutional challenges because initial conditions (in this case, carbon dioxide emissions) do not result in immediate or proportional responses (say, global temperature anomalies), but instead play out through feedbacks among the climate system, oceans, the cryosphere, and changes in forest biomes, with some considerable delays in time. Additional challenges emerge from the fact that early warnings of pending so-called “catastrophic shifts” face numerous obstacles, and that early responses are undermined by a lack of knowledge, complex causality, and severe coordination challenges.

Stopping declines in biodiversity is critically important, but it is only a first step toward achieving more ambitious conservation goals. The absence of an objective and practical definition of species recovery that is applicable across taxonomic groups leads to inconsistent targets in recovery plans and frustrates reporting and maximization of conservation impact. We devised a framework for comprehensively assessing species recovery and conservation success. We propose a definition of a fully recovered species that emphasizes viability, ecological functionality, and representation; and use counterfactual approaches to quantify degree of recovery. This allowed us to calculate a set of 4 conservation metrics that demonstrate impacts of conservation efforts to date (conservation legacy); identify dependence of a species on conservation actions (conservation dependence); quantify expected gains resulting from conservation action in the medium term (conservation gain); and specify requirements to achieve maximum plausible recovery over the long term (recovery potential). These metrics can incentivize the establishment and achievement of ambitious conservation targets. We illustrate their use by applying the framework to a vertebrate, an invertebrate, and a woody and an herbaceous plant. Our approach is a preliminary framework for an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Green List of Species, which was mandated by a resolution of IUCN members in 2012. Although there are several challenges in applying our proposed framework to a wide range of species, we believe its further development, implementation, and integration with the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species will help catalyze a positive and ambitious vision for conservation that will drive sustained conservation action.

Today’s young people will be on the frontline of experiencing the worst effects of the climate crisis as they age in a world in which climate-induced disasters will be increasing in intensity and frequency unless ‘net zero’ is reached before the current deadline of 2050. The case for urgently addressing the climate crisis by 2030 has been made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Years later, and with the disappointing outcomes of the 2021 United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) 26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland and COP27 in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt in 2022, little has changed. Politicians fill the airwaves with fine words about reaching ‘net zero’. Meanwhile, countries like India, the 3rd largest polluter do not aim to meet ‘net zero’ until 2070! Young people have limited engagement in formal policy-making locally, nationally, and globally, so their voices remain largely ignored. Practitioners, seldom engage young people in climate action. This professional disinterest in young people’s experiences of the climate crisis and aspirations for a net zero future must end. This article focuses on young people’s voices, research and action, including their involvement in COP26 activities in Glasgow. Young people, as agentic persons, can make decisions about climate change, and are well-placed to do this if given the opportunity. Social workers can support and mobilise young people in climate action and demand that climate change be included in the social work curriculum.

Reviewed by: Ireland and the Climate Crisis ed. by David Robbins, Diarmuid Torney, Pat Brereton Dr Ciara Murphy (bio) David Robbins, Diarmuid Torney, Pat Brereton (eds.), Ireland and the Climate Crisis (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 336 pages. We, as a global society, have known for decades that climate change is a problem. The scientific knowledge about the causes and solutions have crystalized over the years to the point where there is no doubt that the climate is changing and human activities are the main cause. Like much of the world, Ireland has failed to respond and act upon this knowledge, with former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stating in December 2018, ‘Obviously, climate emissions and greenhouse gas areas is an area where we’re laggard and falling way behind’.1 Acknowledging all of this, the main question that remains is why have we been so slow to act on this knowledge? Focusing specifically on the Irish context this book, Ireland and the Climate Crisis, aims to answer this question. Edited by David Robbins, Diarmuid Torney, and Pat Brereton (all from the School of Communications and the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University), this book is the result of a collaboration from across the climate change sphere in Ireland. Over the space of sixteen chapters and through the contributions of nineteen additional authors, this book brings together numerous different threads weaving them into a tapestry representing a comprehensive picture of climate change in Ireland. Climate change is not purely about the science. It has deep environmental, social and cultural connotations which shape how and why we respond, or indeed, fail to respond. This book reflects this reality and focuses not only on the ‘hard science’ of climate change and how it will manifest itself here but concentrates on the often neglected ‘soft science’ research which examines the social and political realities which has brought us to this point, as well highlighting the opportunities for, and barriers to, climate action in Ireland. The book is organized into four main sections. The first section details the most up-to-date scientific knowledge on the impacts of climate change in Ireland and a history of Ireland’s policy response. This gives the context and sets the stage for the more detailed examination of the circumstances and processes leading to the current situation, considered in subsequent sections. Section two investigates the role of politics and the law more closely while section three investigates the aspects of our society, including our economy, that influence climate actions. In this section, the role of communication and media in shaping a society’s perception of climate action are also brought [End Page 130] to the fore. The final section looks in detail at how we can engage with the climate movement and act collectively to mitigate the crisis. The construction of the book can be seen as an attempted ‘integral ecology’ approach, refusing to reduce the problem or the solution to one single track. It also highlights the interdependencies and interconnections between the different aspects and climate action pathways. The frequent cross referencing between the chapters and common themes that are observed throughout the book, such as the influence of agriculture on the climate change story in Ireland, makes it obvious to the reader that the subject matter that is dealt with in the individual chapters cannot be examined in isolation. A striking example of this can be observed in section two, which opens with an examination by Sadhbh O’Neill and Edwin Alblas of the strengths and weaknesses of using litigation as a tool to ‘force’ the government to comply with its own commitments (p. 57). Implicit in the effectiveness of this tool is the strength of the legislation which underpins it, both at national and EU level (p. 73), which mirrors the ambition of the politicians and legislators responsible for drawing up these laws (p. 91). Alongside the policy gains and legislative change that might arise, the Climate Case also functioned as a focal point for the climate movement, which both supported the proceedings and were mobilized by this novel form of climate action. Additionally, the ambition of the politicians and consequently the strength of the...

Background: The rising concern about climate change and risks associated with it around the world and locally compared to the disproportionate level of awareness in Jos Metropolis inspired this study. Achieving adaptation to climate change always relies on the level of awareness. Hence effort must be made to intensify awareness. Though religious leaders in the study area have significant followership to positively change the tides of climate change awareness, risk perception, adaptation, and action, the opportunity is not harnessed. The study sought to project the role and attitude of religious leaders in Jos Metropolis in the global climate crisis. Methodology: Through a survey of a systematically drawn sample of 293 religious leaders using the Climate Change Survey Questionnaire (CCSQ), data was gathered to answer questions on climate change awareness, climate risk perception, attitude towards climate change, and the role of religious leaders in fighting the climate crisis. The reliability of the CCSQ was computed using the Cronbach Alpha method to be 0.98 after validation by experts in the field of Geography. Findings: Insights from the data suggest that religious leaders have a superficial awareness but lack meaningful awareness of climate change, giving rise to the shrouded perception of climate risks. Further, their attitude towards climate change issues was found to be positive, but not to the extent of neither taking individual measures to reduce climate change nor accepting organized media communications on climate change as factual. The level of awareness, risk perception, and attitude of the subjects under study were sufficient to inspire acceptance of climate change issues for discussions in churches/mosques and inclusion in their strategic plans. Findings also revealed that though nearly all the religious leaders have never taught in church/mosque on the subject of climate change or taken climate action in their immediate communities, the result shows the willingness of religious leaders to accept informed persons/experts to talk to their members on climate change. Recommendations: Considering the necessity of awareness in combating climate change, it is recommended that the government should seek opportunities to deepen awareness among religious leaders which could have a ripple effect on the Nigerian populace. Religious leaders were advised to teach or create platforms to bring awareness of climate change and its risks to their members. Circulation of climate laws and policies to religious leaders and the public is strongly advocated.

Offline: Extinction or rebellion?

Frequent occurrences of natural disaster in Indonesia cause major problems in the form of financial losses and social disturbances. Disasters with tremendous impacts disrupt the administration of state and hinder the development processes, mainly because the events require expensive and long recovery process. The issuance of Law No. 24 of 2007 on Disaster Management has triggered a paradigm change in disaster management in Indonesia. The management of disaster which previously tended to be responsive and spontaneous has shifted toward preventive and more focused on disaster preparedness and risk reduction. This law explicitly states the responsibility of the government in the implementation of Disaster Management in the form of disaster risk reduction and it integration to development programs. In addition, in the implementation of Disaster Management the government has the authority in determining disaster management policies in line with national development policies. But it is undeniable that there were many cases where different approaches between government and community emerged and become sensitive issues in dealing with disasters management particularly in disaster risk reduction. In this paper a series of intensive community involvement in the form of focus group discussions has been proposed and should be carried out by government in the preparation of development plans. This includes early round of activities followed by formal round of consultation before a draft document of development plans is prepared. Accommodating local wisdom through this robust community engagement is essential in the governmental strategy preparation process. It is a valuable addition and an effective integration in the action strategies of integrated disaster risk reduction so that an appropriate planning decision including the resulting mitigation plan and disaster-resistant infrastructure accepted by the community can be implemented in the disaster prone areas.KeywordsDisaster managementDisaster risk reductionData and geospatial informationCultural attributesDisaster-resistant infrastructure

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