Introduction Indonesia is a highly climate and disaster vulnerable nation in the world. The country lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire” which has over 17,000 islands and is prone to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, droughts and forest fires (World Bank Group, 2016). All these geophysical risks today overlap with the accelerated climate risks, […]
Category: Climate Policy
THE 24-HOUR ECONOMY: GHANA’S INITIATIVE TOWARDS A GREEN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT.
Executive Summary Climate change is a significant global concern, impacting economic growth and development. The 2015 Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals have set pathways to combat climate change, urging nations to adopt global green transition pathways (The Ministry of Environment, Science, 2023). In December 2024, Ghana’s new president, John Dramani Mahama, vowed to improve […]
Strait of Hormuz Blockade: Crises or Turning Point for the Energy Transition
The US and Israel waged a costly war on The Islamic Republic of Iran which started on the 28th February 2026 leading to blockade on ship transit route through the strait of Hormuz. It is important to note that almost twenty percent (20%) of global energy supply transit through this vital route. This war came […]
Sweden’s Clean Energy Policy: A Global Leader For the Green Transition
INTRODUCTION In 1991, a Nordic country, Sweden, introduced carbon pricing (Andersson, 2019), to encourage renewable energy use. The policy, which aligned with the Paris Agreement objectives, was designed to create cleaner energy supply and use technologies. This resulted in wind and biofuel investment subsidies, international environmental taxation, and tax reform (Cruciani, 2016). Sweden has steadily […]
EXPLORING CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PLASTIC WASTE REDUCTION
A SUSTAINABLE HOUSEHOLD POLICY INITIATIVES IN ASEAN. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The production of plastics has increased in the world in the recent decades. Plastic materials are used in many industrial applications and have become quite beneficial for modern society since they are light, inexpensive, and very adaptable. Among other things, they enable us to preserve food, […]
Adaptation and Dependence: Ethiopia and Nigeria Climate Policy Approach
Climate change is now one of the key policy concerns of the 21st century in the world, though the response of countries to the problem has varied widely. These disparities are determined by the economic development status, emission liability, climatic frailty, institutional competency, and political agenda. The paper is a comparison of Ethiopian and Nigerian […]
How China has manufactured the EV Giant in the World
Climate Policy, State Power, and Industrial Transformation The Chinese government implemented a systematic approach to industrial policy, between 2009 and 2024, which completely transformed the world automotive industry and at the same time supported the agenda of curbing climate change. China has turned into the global manufacturing power in less than 20 years through long-term […]
The Digital Double Edged Sword: The Brain That Heats and The Mind That Heals
In the world we live in, we often confuse the virtual with something we do not see and does not have an effect on us. We tap on glass screens and send messages through the air, as believing that the digital world is not real and not physical. Imagine a quiet room where you ask […]
The Strategic Importance of National Registry System in National Climate Policy
Indonesia is a topographically endowed nation that is very prone to the impacts of climate change. This can be explained as its weakness, considering that it is the biggest archipelago in the world and has the longest continuous coastline in the world, with five major islands and thousands of minor ones. Without sound mitigation and […]
Climate Policy Divergence: Liberia and Sierra Leone
Overview of Climate Policy Approaches Liberia and Sierra Leone are two countries with opposite methods of climate policy in West Africa, even though they are countries in the same geographic position and have common developmental issues. Liberia has adopted an ambitious forest-based mitigation plan that has been supplemented with certain coastal adaptation plans as compared […]