Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2269121
Philemon Puordeme Dong-Uuro, Kenneth Peprah
ABSTRACTLocal climate change impacts hit hard at smallholder farmers in developing countries due to their overreliance on rain-fed farming. Whilst ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to climate change holds an answer to smallholder farmers' adaptation needs, there are inadequate empirical results from the field to support formulation of effective adaptation strategies. Hence, this paper aimed at investigating EbA practices adopted by farmers, in North-Western Ghana to ameliorate local climate change impacts, with emphasis on benefits and associated challenges. The study methods were cross-sectional survey, mixed methods, and case study approach, with all data collected in the Wa West District of Ghana. Data were gathered using questionnaire, focus group discussion (FGD) and interviews. Data from the questionnaire were entered into SPSS version 20 to analyze associations between the variables using cross-tabulation. Descriptive statistics, in the form of percentages and frequencies, were then generated from the survey data and integrated with the qualitative information in the presentation of results. Also, statistical significance of the relationships was analyzed using chi-square test. Chi-squared tests were done to determine associations between socio-economic and environmental factors, and challenges and benefits associated with the adoption of EbA practices. This was necessary to give further insights to inform policy-related decisions aimed at addressing EbA adoption challenges. The results revealed that farmers use a combination of practices rather than single practice. Farmers integrated crops and trees and keep local breed of farm animals. Benefits of EbA included improvements in soil fertility leading to high crop yield and availability of food and income. Challenges of adopting EbA were the long timespan for benefits of most EbA practices to begin to accrue, lack of extension information and increasing cost of hired labour. It is recommended that tree integration should emphasis trees with multiple benefits and compatible with food crops.Key policy insights:For the achievement of food security policy objectives, agroforestry promotion should focus on the integration of fruit tree crops and food crops to address hunger and increase farmers’ incomes.Mobile extension technology should be exploited by government for the provision of EbA-specific information to farmers to bridge the extension services gap.Climate change policy of government should include the planting of non-fruit trees as windbreaks to provide multi-purpose benefits including provision of stakes for yam farmers, live-fencing and firewood for women.There is the need for government policy objectives to include EbA by farmers under the flagship ‘planting for food and jobs’ programme.KEYWORDS: Climate impactssmallholderfarmerecosystem-based adaptation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
由于发展中国家的小农过度依赖雨养农业，当地气候变化对他们造成了严重影响。尽管基于生态系统的气候变化适应(EbA)可以满足小农的适应需求，但该领域的实证结果不足以支持制定有效的适应战略。因此，本文旨在调查加纳西北部农民为改善当地气候变化影响而采用的EbA做法，重点关注收益和相关挑战。研究方法为横断面调查、混合方法和案例研究法，所有数据收集于加纳瓦西部地区。数据收集采用问卷调查、焦点小组讨论(FGD)和访谈。问卷数据输入SPSS version 20，采用交叉表法分析变量之间的关联。然后从调查数据中产生以百分比和频率形式表示的描述性统计数字，并在提出结果时将其与定性资料结合起来。并采用卡方检验分析关系的统计学显著性。采用卡方检验来确定社会经济因素和环境因素之间的关联，以及采用EbA做法带来的挑战和益处。这对于提供进一步的见解，为旨在解决EbA采用挑战的政策相关决策提供信息是必要的。结果表明，农民使用多种做法而不是单一做法。农民将作物和树木结合起来，并饲养当地的农场动物。EbA的好处包括改善土壤肥力，从而提高作物产量，增加粮食供应和收入。采用EbA的挑战是大多数EbA实践的好处开始积累的时间跨度长，缺乏扩展信息和雇佣劳动力成本增加。建议树种整合应侧重于多种效益和与粮食作物兼容的树种。关键政策见解:为实现粮食安全政策目标，农林业推广应侧重于果树作物和粮食作物的整合，以解决饥饿问题并增加农民收入。政府应利用移动推广技术向农民提供特定于eba的信息，以弥补推广服务的差距。政府的气候变化政策应该包括种植非果树作为防风林，以提供多种用途的好处，包括为山药农民提供木桩，为妇女提供围栏和木柴。政府的政策目标需要将农民的EbA纳入旗舰项目“为粮食和就业而种植”计划。关键词:气候影响;小农;基于生态系统的适应披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2268576
Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Diana Reckien, Robbert Biesbroek, Brian Mantlana, Karin Pfeffer
Climate change is a key socioeconomic and environmental concern in South Africa. The South African government introduced several climate change initiatives to address the impacts of climate change,...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2268593
Lucy Njuguna, Robbert Biesbroek, Todd Crane, Peter Tamás
Adaptation tracking is crucial for understanding progress in responding to climate change impacts across space and time. However, adaptation tracking is constrained by the lack of agreement on how ...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2268070
Emily Lewis-Brown, Neil Jennings, Morena Mills, Robert Ewers
The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere and stabilize natural carbon sinks has led to the development of many carbon management measures, increasingly including voluntary carbon offsets (VCOs). We studied carbon management in universities, institutions with large carbon footprints and considerable influence in climate science and policy fora. However, concerns that VCOs may deter adopters (including universities) from adopting other carbon reduction measures and limit emissions reductions, for example, through moral hazard, have been raised but understudied. We compared the carbon management characteristics (priorities, policies, practices and emissions) of universities that did and did not adopt VCOs. We found adopters measured carbon emissions for longer, and had set targets to reach net zero earlier than had non-adopters. Adopters of VCOs also undertook more carbon management practices in both 2010 and 2020 than non-adopters. We also found that both adopters and non-adopters significantly increased their carbon management practices over the decade studied, but with no difference between groups. Gross CO2 emissions were reduced significantly over time by adopters of VCOs but not by non-adopters, whereas carbon intensity and percentage annual emissions reductions did not relate to adoption status. Consequently, our study showed no indication of mitigation deterrence due to adoption of VCOs at the universities studied. Rather, greater emissions reductions correlated with earlier net zero target dates, and a higher number of policies and carbon management practices. However, our study was constrained to universities that were affiliated with a national environmental network, so research beyond these organizations, and with individuals, would be useful. The survey was voluntary, exposing the study to potential self-selection bias so the findings may not be generalized beyond the study group. Finally, we found the carbon accounting method currently required of universities for scope 1 and 2 emissions may underestimate emissions reductions, particularly for adopters of VCOs. Augmenting the current location-based accounting method with market-based carbon accounts may overcome this.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2267021
Lærke Godsk Jensbye, Wusheng Yu
Few countries have declared sector-specific emission reduction targets in agriculture, making it difficult to construct and assess realistic climate mitigation scenarios for analytical and policyma...
很少有国家宣布农业部门具体减排目标，因此难以为分析和政策制定构建和评估现实的气候缓解情景。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2261900
Clara McDonnell, Joyeeta Gupta
Institutional investors, who control as much as $154 trillion globally, may play an important role in shaping the energy transition as major stakeholders in fossil fuel producing, distributing and ...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2261881
Alexandra Lesnikowski, Sébastien Jodoin, Jean-Philippe Lemay, Verity Thomson, Kasia Johnson
Human rights have potential to enhance adaptation because they reflect internationally agreed upon standards of human dignity, aim to advance formal and substantive forms of equality, and can be us...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2266475
Mori W. Gouroubera, Albert Kora Sabi, Traoré Kabirou Bio Comada, Faridah Dosso, Sènami A. Fatondji, Morrisson Boladji Gouthon, Rachelle P. Houaga
Providing climate information services (CIS) to smallholder farmers using digital tools is widely considered to be one of the promising ways to increase the adoption of climate information (CI). Ho...
{"title":"Designing effective digital-based delivery of climate information for smallholder farmers: a mini meta-analysis on drivers and barriers","authors":"Mori W. Gouroubera, Albert Kora Sabi, Traoré Kabirou Bio Comada, Faridah Dosso, Sènami A. Fatondji, Morrisson Boladji Gouthon, Rachelle P. Houaga","doi":"10.1080/14693062.2023.2266475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2266475","url":null,"abstract":"Providing climate information services (CIS) to smallholder farmers using digital tools is widely considered to be one of the promising ways to increase the adoption of climate information (CI). Ho...","PeriodicalId":48114,"journal":{"name":"Climate Policy","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50164898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2262439
Eilidh Hughes, Aiora Zabala
Many oil and gas (O&G) companies began, in recent years, to increase their renewable and low-carbon energy (R&LCE) operations – crucial for climate mitigation. In Scotland, renewable electricity ge...
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ABSTRACTAn energy transition programme based on the principles of energy justice is an important way to mitigate climate change; however, empirical studies on energy justice remain scarce. This study explores key aspects of energy transition policy implementation in China, using three dimensions of energy justice – distributional, recognition and procedural justice – to establish an analytical framework and help develop quantification methodologies. We focused on Luquan District, Shijiazhuang City (Hebei Province, China), to assess energy justice levels following the implementation of China’s ‘coal-to-gas’ energy transition policy in rural regions. The findings indicate that China’s rural energy policy has not delivered energy justice. Analysis revealed a markedly low procedural justice index, registering a mere 0.37 on a scale of 0–1, attributable to factors such as the lack of involvement of rural households and a lack of transparency in the design and formulation of policy, as well as a lack of access of rural households to policy-related information. Furthermore, insufficient acknowledgment of the needs of specific groups during the energy transition has negatively impacted recognition justice, resulting in a mid-level index value of 0.69. By comparison, this study shows reveals a reasonably high energy distributional justice index value of 0.89. These findings suggest the need for the government to enhance energy policy communication and responsiveness to its stakeholders, to acknowledge and fairly address the energy transition needs of rural consumers, and to implement targeted energy subsidies to augment distributional justice and preclude the waste of limited financial resources. The analytical framework and calculation methods presented here could contribute to quantifying energy justice levels and to informing energy transition policy both in China and more broadly elsewhere in the world.Key policy insightsSince 2013, implementation of China’s ‘coal-to-gas’ energy transition policy has engendered impacts on different dimensions of social justice that have influenced the realization of a just transition.A composite index system is established, encompassing distributional justice, recognition justice, and procedural justice, and quantitative exploration of energy justice is undertaken using a reverse deduction method.The greatest losses in justice, following implementation of China’s ‘coal-to-gas’ energy transition policy, are related to procedural justice, whereas recognition justice incurs moderate losses, and distributional justice experiences the lowest level of losses.Acknowledging the disparities among different groups, the ideal allocation of energy subsidies should be actualized through preliminary surveys, consultation and coordination, thereby preventing resource wastage.Recognizing individual rights and guaranteeing that the policy implementation process is open, transparent and participatory, could enhance energy justice and m
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