Browsing by Author "Glavovic B"

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    A new season for climate change science and praxis?
    (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024-01-29) Glavovic B; Bremer S; Wardekker A
    I write these reflections at the end of the 27th Conference of Parties meeting of governments (COP27), held in Egypt in November 2022, at which governments sought to progress climate action. COP27 was informed by the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Established in 1988, the IPCC provides UN member nations with comprehensive assessments of the state of climate change science and its implications. I spent much of 2017–2022 devoted to AR6. I was a Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on sea-level rise in the IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (1), Lead Author of the chapter on Climate Resilient Development, and co-lead for the Cross-Chapter Paper on Cities and Settlements by the Sea, in the Working Group II report (2). How can I convey the gravitas of the climate predicament outlined in AR6? Moreover, where do we stand now – after more than three decades of intensive climate change science-policy interactions? What does this portend for climate change scientists, policy advisors and elected politicians? What does it mean for you and I? And how might answers to these questions inform our understanding about seasons; and how we might navigate impending dangerous climate change?
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    Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact
    (Wiley Periodicals LLC, 2021-11) Bremer S; Glavovic B; Meisch S; Schneider P; Wardekker A
    Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention to institutions' informal side; their cultures. It is important to study institutions' cultures because it is through culture that people relate to institutional norms and rules in taking climate action. This review uncovers what work has been done on institutional cultures and climate change, discerns common themes around which this scholarship coheres, and advances and argument for why institutional cultures matter. We employed a systematic literature review to assemble a set of 54 articles with a shared concern for how climate change and institutional cultures concurrently affect each other. The articles provided evidence of a nascent field, emerging over the past 5–10 years and fragmented across literatures. This field draws on diverse concepts of institutionalism for revealing quite different expressions of culture, and is mostly grounded in empirical studies. These disparate studies compellingly demonstrate, from different perspectives, that institutional cultures do indeed matter for implementing climate governance. Indeed, the articles converge in providing empirical evidence of eight key sites of interaction between climate change and institutional cultures: worldviews, values, logics, gender, risk acceptance, objects, power, and relationality. These eight sites are important foci for examining and effecting changes to institutions and their cultures; showing how institutional cultures shape responses to climate change, and how climate change shapes institutional cultures. This article is categorized under: The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Knowledge and Practice
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    Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town.
    (Springer Nature Limited published in partnership with RMIT University, 2023-02-28) Simpson NP; Simpson KJ; Ferreira AT; Constable A; Glavovic B; Eriksen SEH; Ley D; Solecki W; Rodríguez RS; Stringer LC
    Priorities and programmes in the City of Cape Town's Integrated Development Plan (2022-2027) demonstrate progress towards operationalising local level planning for climate-resilient development. These developments provide lessons of process and focus on transformative outcomes for cities seeking equitable and just development while implementing climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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    Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics
    (John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society, 2020-02) Tadaki M; Sinner J; Šunde C; Giorgetti A; Glavovic B; Awatere S; Lewis N; Stephenson J
    1. Environmental valuation provides a way of soliciting and organising information about how people relate to their environments. By canvassing a broad spectrum of human–nature relationships, valuation practice seeks to make environmental decision-making more inclusive of diverse human concerns and aspirations. 2. When valuation is undertaken in real-world decision-making settings, choices must be made about how to adapt valuation into context. Generic guidance illuminates choices of theory and method, as well as practical issues such as cost and complexity; however, little guidance exists on how to understand and respond to the political implications of valuation in places. 3. To address this, we develop four propositions on how valuation intervenes into conflicted environmental decision-making contexts, drawing on interviews with government officials and marine values-holders from Aotearoa New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds. 4. Valuation intervenes in politics by (i) vesting certain scales and actors with authority, (ii) aligning with or contesting existing regulatory categories, (iii) reallocating expertise about the environment and (iv) reproducing or reworking the uneven playing field of decision-making. Understanding these implications can support valuation practitioners to situate their work within locally relevant contexts and objectives. 5. These propositions provide a way of grasping the mechanisms through which valuation intervenes in local political struggles for environmental authority. Using these prompts, and developing others, can help valuation practitioners to ‘do good’ through seeking place-based environmental justice and sustainability.
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    Managing Aotearoa New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions from aviation
    (Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2024-01-01) Callister P; McLachlan RI; Glavovic B
    Prior to COVID, the global aviation industry was growing rapidly. Growth has now resumed and is predicted to continue for at least the next three decades. Aotearoa New Zealand has particularly high aviation emissions and has been on a very rapid growth path that is incompatible with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Government, intergovernmental, nongovernmental, academic and industry sources have proposed technological innovations to address aviation emissions. These include sustainable aviation fuels, electric and hydrogen powered aircraft, and increases in efficiency. We review these and assess that none of them will lead to a significant reduction in emissions in the short to medium term. In addition, we demonstrate that even very aggressive uptake of new technology results in the New Zealand aviation sector exceeding its share of the carbon budget as determined by the Paris Agreement. Therefore, we examine the fundamental drivers of growth in aviation: the tourism and airport industries, emissions pricing and substitutes, and the distribution of air travel. Governance of this sector is challenging, but it is changing rapidly. We conclude that a national aviation action plan needs to be developed and implemented based on the ‘Avoid/Shift/Improve’ framework in use in other areas of transportation planning.
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    Oceans of Conflict: Pathways to an Ocean Sustainability PACT
    (Taylor and Francis Group, 2022) Tafon R; Glavovic B; Saunders F; Gilek M
    Festering ocean conflict thwarts efforts to realize the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This paper explores transformations of ocean conflict into situated sustainability pathways that privilege human needs, justice and equity. We first outline the promise and limits of prevailing ocean/coastal governance practices, with a focus on marine spatial planning (MSP), which by framing conflict in shallow terms as use incompatibility, supports resolution strategies that privilege neoliberal technocratic-managerial and post-political models of consensual negotiation, thereby obscuring the structural inequalities, maldistributions and misrecognitions that drive deep-seated conflicts. Next, the distinctive features of the marine realm and ocean conflict are explained. Third, we outline the root causes, drivers and scale of conflict, with reference to history, climate, culture, governance, institutions and prevailing international socio-political conditions. Fourth, we reflect on the nature of conflict, exploring implications for shallow and deeper approaches of handling conflicts. Fifth, we highlight the implications of knowledge co-production for understanding and transforming conflict in pursuit of justice. Then, in response to the orthodoxies of MSP and prevailing conflict resolution strategies, we elaborate an alternative approach – Pragmatic Agonistic co-produced Conflict Transformation (PACT) for sustainability – sketching out key elements of a praxis that seeks to transform destructive interaction patterns of conflict into co-produced, constructive, scalable and ‘institutionalizable’ yet contestable and provisional sustainability knowledge-action.
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    Ten new insights in climate science 2022
    (Cambridge University Press, 2022-11-10) Martin MA; Boakye EA; Boyd E; Broadgate W; Bustamante M; Canadell JG; Carr ER; Chu EK; Cleugh H; Csevár S; Daoudy M; De Bremond A; Dhimal M; Ebi KL; Edwards C; Fuss S; Girardin MP; Glavovic B; Hebden S; Hirota M; Hsu HH; Huq S; Ingold K; Johannessen OM; Kameyama Y; Kumarasinghe N; Langendijk GS; Lissner T; Lwasa S; MacHalaba C; Maltais A; Mathai MV; Mbow C; McNamara KE; Mukherji A; Murray V; Mysiak J; Okereke C; Ospina D; Otto F; Prakash A; Pulhin JM; Raju E; Redman A; Rigaud KK; Rockström J; Roy J; Schipper ELF; Schlosser P; Schulz KA; Schumacher K; Schwarz L; Scown M; Šedová B; Siddiqui TA; Singh C; Sioen GB; Stammer D; Steinert NJ; Suk S; Sutton R; Thalheimer L; Van Aalst M; Van Der Geest K; Zhao ZJ
    Non-technical summary We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Technical summary We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Social media summary Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.
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