Climate Issues Research Articles

Digital Jordanian Daily Newspapers Coverage of Climate Change

This article aimed to identify the coverage of digital Jordanian daily newspapers of climate change issues and the framing used in published Journalism materials. A media survey methodology has been adopted to achieve the article's aim, using content analysis of 335 Journalism articles published on the websites Al-Ghad, Addustour, and Al-Rai. The results showed that the three digital Jordanian daily newspapers were interested in covering the issue of climate change and relied mainly on "reports" to provide information about the issue. Furthermore, it relied on persuasive methods to convince the reader of climate change and its adverse societal effects and raise environmental awareness to ensure sustainable development. The results also revealed that digital Jordanian daily newspapers framed the issue of climate change within the framing of the strategy, responsibility, and human interests. Finally, the results concluded that the digital Jordanian daily newspapers should avoid framing climate change within an episodic frame, as this process shapes and changes the public's interpretations and priorities towards climate issues.

Impact of climate change, climate variability and adaptation in the coastal area of Cambodia

Cambodia's coastal zones are highly dependent on climate and weather, making them susceptible to climate change and causing farmers’ livelihoods to be more vulnerable compared to urban residents. Since climate issues already impact the agricultural sector in Cambodia, this paper aims to assess the impact of disasters in the context of climate change, which impacts household agricultural production, and to identify the existing community's capacity to respond and adapt to climate change and climate variability in the coastal zones of Cambodia. A survey was conducted in the agricultural coastal zone provinces of Cambodia. Data was analysed using SPSS software. The survey data demonstrates that disasters and climate change, particularly drought and floods, significantly impact the economic status of the interviewed households. The proportion of households experiencing disasters and climate change impacts has increased gradually. Regarding household capacity to respond and adapt to disasters and climate change, households in the target area mainly focused on resilient farming techniques for rice crop production rather than other farming activities, and most of the practices were targeted to adaptation in the occurrence of droughts. The issue of receiving Early Warning Signs (EWS) information was addressed and 37% of the respondents reported “no source of climate information”. Therefore, it is recommended to strengthen the capacity of local people in the coastal areas of Cambodia in responding to climate change.

The Impact of Carbon Emission on Global Warming Based on LSTM Model and PCA

Climate related topic has become a big topic in recent years. Frequent occurrence of extreme phenomenon has made people to are about the climate issue throughout the world, especially about the global warming. This study uses LSTM model to predict the temperature anomaly in the next 100 years and makes PCA to analyze the main contributor to global warming. The temperature anomaly this article used as the dependent variable will stay in a relatively stable stage and the highest anomaly is 1.24℃ while the lowest is 0.25℃. Among carbon dioxide emission, forest fires and volcanic eruption, the main factor that contributes to global warming id CO2. At end of the article, some practical suggestions are put forward to reduce carbon emission in normal life. This article aims to present a basic knowledge of global warming and climate change, and provide people with some measures to implement low carbon.

Financial Statement Analysis of the New Energy Vehicle Enterprise—BYD

With the increasingly severe global climate and energy issues, promoting the development of the new energy vehicle industry is becoming more and more important for governments around the world. As a leading new energy vehicle enterprise in China and even in the world, BYD plays an important role in the automobile market. This article selects BYD as the research object and analyzes the company's solvency ability, profitability, and growth based on its financial statement data from 2018 to 2022. By using horizontal comparative analysis and DuPont analysis, it is found that BYD has very excellent growth ability and good profitability, but it is weak in solvency ability and has potential liquidity risk. BYD should further enhance its profitability by increasing the profitability of its single vehicle in the future, and try to reduce its financial leverage as much as possible while maintaining its current high-speed growth trend to solve the problem of its weak solvency ability.

Probabilistic approach to the sustainability assessment of reinforced concrete structures in conditions of climate change

The paper presents a probabilistic method based on two methodologies – Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), for evaluating the sustainability of reinforced concrete (RC) structures in terms of their costs and CO2 emissions. The method considers the whole life of a RC structure by taking into account CO2 initially embodied in its construction materials, the absorption of CO2 by concrete due to carbonation during the service life of the structure, potential damage to the structure due to carbonation-induced corrosion of reinforcing steel that may require repairs, and relevant costs. Since there are numerous uncertainties associated with the calculation of CO2 emissions and costs, a probabilistic approach is beneficial. The emphasis is made on RC structures made of the so-called “green concretes”, in which Portland cement is partially replaced with supplementary cementitious materials such as fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag. The issue of a changing climate is also addressed. The method is illustrated by assessing the sustainability of a multi-story RC carpark made of different concrete types at three different locations (London, Paris and Marseille) for present and future climate conditions. This assessment's results show that using green concretes leads to a major reduction in CO2 emissions and a small decrease in the life-cycle cost of the carpark RC elements. The relative sustainability performance of green concretes slightly improves compared to Portland cement concrete for future climate conditions.

Förutsättningar och utmaningar för renskötseln i Norge, Sverige och Finland

This report is based on the book "Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change - pastoralism in Fennoscandia". The book, which was published in 2022, brings together previous and new research compiled within a Nordic collaboration project, ReiGN (Reindeer husbandry in a Globalizing North), funded by NordForsk during the years 2016 – 2021. Grants from NordForsk also funded this report. The report, published in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and North Sámi, summarizes some of the main results from the book. In nine chapters it describes how reindeer herding is affected by climate change, the continuous loss of reindeer grazing land and other external factors that together represent large challenges for reindeer, reindeer herders and the reindeer herding community as a whole. The report contains perspectives from many different research areas. Each chapter in the report has one or more references and links to chapters in the above mentioned book, which is freely available online (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003118565). The chapters in the report cover a range of different topics, like present and historical reindeer herding (Chapter 1), the genetic background of the semi-domesticated reindeer (Chapter 2), how reindeer ranges are used and how they are affected by climate change and expanding industrial development (Chapter 3), possibilities for adaptation to a warmer climate (Chapter 4), impact of large predators (Chapter 5), external and internal governance (Chapter 6), reindeer herding as subsistence (Chapter 7), the role of supplementary feeding (Chapter 8), and reindeer health and diseases in a climate perspective (Chapter 9). The report ends with some reflections over the present situation and future perspectives for reindeer herding. The report is aimed at herders and managers, as well as other land users, authorities and policymakers who deal with natural resource management, climate and environmental issues or other matters related to reindeer herding and the use of land and water within the reindeer herding area. Rangifer Report No 16 is the Swedish version of the report. Reports in Norwegian, Finnish and North Sámi are published as following numbers of Rangifer Report.

Multicomponent Self-assembly of a Multinuclear Heterometal–Organic Polymer for CO2 Reduction

To address the greenhouse effect, scientists have never stopped exploring efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction systems, and metal-organic compounds have recently emerged as a solution for overcoming global warming and climate issues. Under the irradiation of visible light, the catalytic activity, stability, and selectivity of most of the non-noble metal complexes reported so far are unsatisfactory. To efficiently fix CO2, Ru multinuclear heterometal–organic compound was obtained for carbon dioxide reduction. The as-synthesized M-Zn complex (M =Ru) catalysts exhibit special catalytic activity for the reduction of CO2 because of the immobilized metal ions serving as active sites during the reaction. This study proposes a general strategy for CO2 reduction through high levels in metal-organic polymers to achieve effective environmental protection and governance.

Challenges in implementing building information modelling for facility management in government buildings in Thailand

PurposeEffective facility management (FM) can reduce environmental effects on buildings throughout their life cycle. This study aims to investigate the challenges in implementing building information modelling (BIM) for FM in government buildings in Thailand.Design/methodology/approachEight government-building facility experts were interviewed using an in-depth interview method to identify FM challenges. The collected qualitative data were analysed via thematic analysis to ensure data saturation. The final questionnaire was designed with 45 FM problems, classified into management, technical and human resource problems, to collect quantitative data from 54 government FM officers. The data were used to prioritise the severity and frequency of the FM problems using the severity index (SI) and relative importance index (RII).FindingsManagement problems have the highest impact, with an average SI of 0.285, followed by human resource (average SI = 0.266) and technical (average SI = 0.264) problems.Originality/valueThis study identifies the government-building FM problems in Thailand that are critical to the development of a BIM execution plan (BEP) guideline. The findings can facilitate strategy development for government-building operations and management in line with the public procurement and supply administration of Thailand. These findings can serve as a guideline to inform the development of a BIM Roadmap for integration into the national digital roadmap and the Thailand 4.0 policy to mitigate construction-related environmental and climate issues.

Framing the path to net zero

Abstract Big corporations are a leading contributor to global carbon emissions and their investment decisions have a significant impact on the world’s ability to tackle climate change. This study combines corpus and discourse approaches to examine how major corporate emitters have responded to the Paris Agreement, how they legitimize their practices amid mounting public pressure, and how companies operating in high- and middle-income countries differ in their framing of climate change. The results show that carbon majors place increasing focus on climate issues, widely support the goals of the Paris Agreement, and are increasingly making net-zero pledges. However, close inspection of linguistic patterns reveals a troubling disconnect between proclaimed goals, the solutions advocated for, and the radical steps needed to address the escalating climate crisis. Companies from middle-income countries devote comparatively less attention to climate change, which points to the need for better coordinated global efforts to address this problem.

Applying Economic Principles to Improve the Quality of Forestry Carbon Sinks Trading in China

The issue of climate change has been continuously concerned by countries around the globe, and with the signing of a series of documents, such as the Paris Agreement, people are gradually realizing that the climate issue is not just an environmental issue, but is also gradually turning into a new way for developed countries to control the world. The core solution to climate warming is to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Therefore, China's establishment of the carbon peak and carbon neutral targets shows the importance it attaches to the ecological environment, and at the same time, it also demonstrates the style of a great power and its responsibility. One of the ways to achieve the dual-carbon goal is to trade carbon sinks, especially forestry carbon sinks. By applying relevant economic principles such as externalities and the resource curse, raising the awareness of individual consumers about carbon sinks, allowing enterprises to contract their own forests for carbon compensation, and improving the relevant systems for forestry carbon trading, the quality of carbon trading can be improved and the major obstacles it faces can be overcome.

Sustainability Disclosure in Financial Statements - Regulations and Issues

In recent years, the efforts of governments and institutions have focused on creating an economy that benefits people and the environment. At the same time, businesses are exposed directly or through third parties, such as suppliers and customers, to significant risk from climate change. Investors need consistent, complete, comparable and verifiable information to assess how climate-related risks and opportunities affect the financial health of businesses, including their future cash flows and value. The latter gives rise to the need to create a regulatory framework that will determine the requirements for identifying, measuring and disclosing the risks and opportunities of enterprises. Accountants and auditors face new challenges related to appropriate disclosure of these issues. Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, a number of measures have been taken to strengthen the sustainability reporting requirements of companies and increase their responsibilities. In recent years, environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) reporting has been considered a key component to successfully addressing climate change. The article aims to analyze the processes related to the regulation and reporting of information by enterprises on climate and sustainability issues. To achieve the goal, the following tasks are set: to outline the role of institutions at the European and global level for creating sustainability standards; to present the disclosure recommendations to the enterprises; to define the features of standardization and its impact on financial statements and the development of the accounting profession in the future.

Estimation Inventories of Persistent Organic Pollutants from Rice Straw Combustion as an Agricultural Waste

Rice cultivation stands as the primary agricultural activity in Asia, generating a substantial amount of agricultural waste. Unfortunately, this waste is often disposed of through burning, contributing to severe environmental, health and climate issues. This study presents the characterization of PCDD/Fs, PCBs and PAHs. The emissions were quantified using a fixed-grid-system biomass plant and measuring the macro-pollutants online and sampling the organic micro-pollutants and metals in isokinetic mode, followed by ISO and CEN standards methods. Additionally, the role of agrochemicals was monitored in terms of metal catalysis resulting in POP emissions. This study provides the comprehensive characterization of the most relevant groups of pollutants (metals, PCDD/Fs, PCBs and PAHs) resulting from agricultural waste combustion. Prominent catalytic metals quantified were Cu (22–48 µg/Nm3) and Fe (78–113 µg/Nm3). Rice straw samples from AJK exhibited higher values of organochlorine micro-pollutants compared to those from Punjab and Sindh, i.e., ∑PCDD/F (2594 > 1493 > 856 pg/Nm3) and ∑PCB (41 > 38 > 30 pg/Nm3), respectively, whereas the organic micro-pollutants ∑c-PAH, indicators of incomplete combustion (PICs), were recorded high in the samples from Sindh followed by Punjab and AJK. The average EF is 100 pg/kg, 2.2 pg/kg and 1053.6 µg/kg for ∑PCDD/F, ∑PCB and ∑c-PAH. This study supports the idea that the phenomena leading to the formation of dioxin and dioxin-like compounds are influenced not only by poor combustion but also by the presence of metal catalysts in the burned fuel.

Risk management, environmental vulnerability, and the climate issue in metropolitan management

Resumo A situação de vulnerabilidade ambiental de algumas populações urbanas tende a ser associada a uma espécie de ignorância ou indiferença dessas populações sobre o risco geológico dos seus territórios. Isso, contudo, ignora que a ocupação do solo urbano não é simples fruto de decisões individuais, mas, sim, da dinâmica complexa entre renda, classe social, racialidade, movimentos sociais e arranjos político-institucionais. A partir dessa compreensão, apresenta-se uma reflexão acerca da distribuição espacial do risco e das vulnerabilidades ambiental e social na Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte (RMBH). A análise baseia-se no cruzamento de mapas de riscos ambientais e de zoneamento dos três municípios componentes da área de contribuição da bacia hidrográfica do Arrudas, unidade de análise selecionada dentro da RMBH.

Tracing the Flow of Climate Change Frames: Intermedia Agenda Setting Between Twitter and News Media in the US and the UK

This study integrates agenda setting and framing theory to explore the transmission of climate change frames between newspapers and Twitter in the US and the UK. A set of computational methods was applied to identify five prevailing climate change frames—cause, impact, action, real, and hoax—in 230,000 tweets and 20,000 news articles from 2016 to 2021. At the cross-national level, a symmetrical relationship was found on Twitter between the US and the UK, which indicates their mutual influence on social-media discussions of climate change. Within each country, the US news media had a stronger agenda-setting influence on public climate change discussions on Twitter, whereas news coverage and social-media discussions in the UK were relatively isolated. The use of the cause frame in the US media coverage often led to the presence of the hoax, action, impact, and cause frames in Twitter conversations, whereas the action frame in the UK media coverage led to the presence of the hoax, real, and impact frames in Twitter discussions. The findings have implications for the dynamics of framing processes that shape public attention and the understanding of climate issues cross-nationally.

기후변화 관련 어휘 사용 및 기후위기 담론의 전개 양상

If there is a problem that has emerged as a global disaster along with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is climate change. This is why the discourse of “climate crisis” has been actively conducted from various angles in recent years. Based on these facts, this study focused on analyzing the use of words related to climate change and how the ideological tendencies pursued by media companies correlate with climate issues, especially the “climate crisis” reports that have been increasingly used recently. The results of the study are summarized as follows.
 First, based on data from BIGKinds, a news big data analysis service provided by the Korea Press Promotion Foundation, it was confirmed that relatively various language variations have been appearing in climate change-related terms over the past 30 years, such as “climate change,” “weather variation,” “abnormal climate,” “climate crisis,” “climate disaster,” and “extreme climate.” Second, in our society, the term “climate change” has been used more frequently since the 2000s instead of “weather change” over the climate issue, which is markedly different in nature from natural fluctuations in the past, and “climate change” has been the most frequently used to date.
 Third, “climate change” showed a sudden upward curve in contrast to other years by showing 15,455 times in 2009 and 26,945 times in 2021. It was confirmed that there is a close correlation between the climate change cause discourse of “global warming” in 2009 and the climate change response discourse of “greenhouse gas reduction” and “carbon neutrality” in 2021.
 Fourth, the second most frequent vocabulary after “climate change” is “climate crisis,” which has shown a total frequency of 33,827 over the past 30 years, and this phenomenon has appeared as a distinct trend, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Fifth, media reports that focus on highlighting the “climate crisis” issue have been confirmed to have a clear correlation with the ideological tendencies of media companies, and in newspaper editorials as well as general articles, liberal media companies are more actively approaching the “climate crisis” issue than conservative media companies.

Students’ Awareness Regarding Environment Protection in Campus Life: Evidence from Romania

Climate awareness is a major topic of concern, and the Green Deal in Europe attempts to turn states, communities, and local actors towards more environmentally conscious action to reduce, by 2030, the net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55%. Universities voluntarily adhered to the 2030 Agenda, displaying a wide variety of approaches to respond to sustainability goals and calls for greening. The purpose of the present study is to establish the students’ readiness for action as sustainability promoters, starting with their awareness of environmental issues. Upon focusing on the perceptions of students from the oldest university in western Romania gathered via an online questionnaire in 2023, the research showed that 95.6% of respondents consider climate issues as important or very important to them, even though less than 50% of the sample evaluate their own knowledge of environmental protection as good or very good. The results show that of the parameters that differentiate student awareness and actions, gender and place of residence (on campus/off campus) play a significant role, helping shape tailored strategies and projects to capitalize on students’ predispositions to engage (or not) in environment-related activities.

Instructive Synergistic Effect of Coordinating Phosphorus in Transition-Metal-Doped β-Phosphorus Carbide Guiding the Design of High-Performance CO2RR Electrocatalysts.

Developing efficient electrocatalysts for the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is the key and difficult point to alleviate energy and climate issues. The synergistic catalytic effects between metal and nonmetal elements have gained attention for the design of the CO2RR electrocatalysts. The realization of this effect requires a suitable combination of metal and nonmetal elements, as well as the support of suitable substrates. Based on this, the transition-metal-doped β-phosphorus carbide (TM-PC) (TM = 4d and 5d transition metals except Tc) catalysts are designed, and their structures, electronic properties, and CO2RR catalytic performances are studied in depth via first-principle calculations. The strong bonding ability and high reactivity brought by the moderate electronegativity and abundant electrons and orbitals of phosphorus are the key to the excellent catalytic performance of TM-PCs. Coordinating phosphorus atoms improve the catalyst activity in two ways: (1) regulating the electron transfer of the TM active site, and (2) acting as the active site and changing the reaction mechanism. With the participation of coordinating P atoms, the "relay" of active sites reduces the limiting potential values for the reduction from CO2 to CH4 catalyzed by Cr-PC and Mo-PC by 0.27 and 0.23 V, respectively, compared with pathways where only the TM atom is the active site, reaching -0.55 and -0.63 V, respectively. Regarding the coordinating P atom as the second active site, Cr-PC and Mo-PC can catalyze the production of CH3CH2OH at limiting potential values of -0.54 and -0.67 V, respectively. This study demonstrates the dramatic enhancement of catalytic activity caused by suitable nonmetal coordinating atoms such as P and provides a reference for the design of high-performance CO2RR electrocatalysts based on metal-nonmetal coordinating active centers.

Mendelsohn’s Rudderless Ship

In 1921 the German-Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn designed and built his seminal hat factory Steinberg, Herrmann & Co., whose many transformations and changing patterns of ownership finally led to a state of obsolesence. After first successful attempts to reconstruct the premises from the 2000s onwards, the building remains predominantly idle, with the risk of falling into disrepair again. Rather than focussing on issues of style, composition, or materiality, this article looks at the life of this building and its current condition, thus seeking to trace some of the aspects that are imbricated in its architecture: issues of race, war, politics, economics, preservation, climate, and function.

Can China reach the CO2 peak by 2030? A forecast perspective.

With the continuous emission of greenhouse gases, climate issues such as global warming have attracted widespread attention. As the largest CO2 emitter, China proposes the target of reaching the CO2 emissions peak by 2030 at the 75th United Nations General Assembly. To determine whether China can realize the goal, we construct an assessment system consisting of a new discrete grey prediction model on the basis of a rolling mechanism and an improved IPCC method. First, the new grey prediction model is used to predict the CO2 emissions and GDP from 2021 to 2030, and then, the enhanced IPCC method is used to obtain the carbon intensity from 2021 to 2030. In line with the direct judgment based on CO2 emissions and the indirect judgment based on the comparison between the AADR of carbon intensity and the AAIR of GDP, we find that China faces great challenges and difficulties in achieving its carbon peaking target by 2030. Finally, based on the forecast data and China's current situation, some policy recommendations are put forward to accelerate China's CO2 peak goal.

A neural network-based measurement of corporate environmental attention and its impact on green open innovation: Evidence from heavily polluting listed companies in China

Increasingly prominent global climate and environmental issues have raised concerns about the living environment and the scrutiny of production and innovation in heavily polluting industries. Environmental concerns can evolve into environmental regulation in the legal sense, as well as environmental attention in informal rules. Although there has been a lot of research on environmental regulation and green open innovation (proportion of collaborative filings in green patents), there is still a lack of identification of the impact of the role of environmental attention, especially in heavily polluting industries that are critical to the economy. Based on this background, this paper uses the relevant data of listed companies in China's heavily polluting industries as a research sample. We use neural networks (Word2Vec) to extract indicators of environmental attention from the text of listed companies' annual reports and measure their impact on green open innovation using multidimensional fixed effects regression. Our research shows that the environmental attention of listed companies in highly polluting industries will significantly reduce their ability to engage in green open innovation. Ultimately, our study will help managers in heavily polluting industries rebalance the economic benefits and environmental transformation of their companies.