Impacts of Climate Change on Economy and Environmental Policies for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 16003
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change impacts; climate change adaptation and mitigation; energy and environmental economics; international trade; economic policy analysis; economic forecasting; Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model
Interests: forest product market and trade; timber safety; forest transformation; forest city; resource economics; environmental economics; environmental management
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Dear Colleagues,
Faced with the serious threat of climate change to humanity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) has become the consensus of the international community. The impacts of climate change are likely to cause cascading and potentially far-reaching repercussions on the social, economic, and environmental systems, with important implications for sustainable development. In particular, climate change will cause damage to agriculture, forestry, husbandry, transportation, energy and tourism by thoroughly affecting natural resources, factor productivity and household consumption. Climate change is also strongly interconnected with a multitude of environmental and social risks, such as air pollution, deforestation, inequality, poverty, starvation and malnutrition, which exacerbate the threats of climate change to humanity, unless further actions are taken. The Paris Agreement, which entered into force in 2016, set the ambitious mitigation goal of limiting the global temperature increase to below 2°C, and ideally, 1.5°C. Achieving this goal requires that by 2030, global net CO2 emissions be reduced by about 45% compared to 2010 and global carbon neutrality be achieved by 2050 (IPCC, 2018). Countries are required to make powerful nationally determined contributions (IDDRI, 2017). However, both how climate change affects the economic system and sustainable development and how the environmental policies work are still poorly understood, highlighting the urgency of the integrated assessment of climate change impacts and the development of environmental policies. This Special Issue aims to contribute an outstanding collection of both research and practice-oriented papers on climate change impacts on economy and relevant environmental policies for sustainable development. This issue particularly welcomes research efforts that are targeted at: (i) identifying the impact mechanism and assessing the impact of climate change on economy; (ii) examining the interactive effects of climate change and environmental pollution; (iii) evaluating the effectiveness of environmental policies to mitigate and adapt the climate change impacts; (iv) developing the methods modelling the impacts of climate change on economy and environmental policies. The papers can be original research articles, including quantitative and empirical analyses, or comprehensive review articles.
Prof. Dr. Yu Liu
Prof. Dr. Baodong Cheng
Dr. Qi Cui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- economic impact
- environmental and energy policies
- mitigation and adaptation
- sustainable development
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