It's not too late to do the right thing: Moral motivations for climate change action

Bain, Paul G.; Bongiorno, Renata

doi:10.1002/wcc.615

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“…Global warming has a direct impact on plants and biodiversity [3,4]. The UN Convention on Climate Change (COP25) recently held in 2019, pinpointed the extreme emergency to find active, decisive, ambitious, and direct solutions for climate change [5,6]. Initially, plants fix atmospheric CO 2 by the photosynthetic process to transform it into organic chemical compounds necessary for development and growth.…”

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Plant Cell Walls Tackling Climate Change: Biotechnological Strategies to Improve Crop Adaptations and Photosynthesis in Response to Global Warming

Ezquer

Salameh

Colombo

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Plants

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Plant cell wall (CW) is a complex and intricate structure that performs several functions throughout the plant life cycle. The CW of plants is critical to the maintenance of cells' structural integrity by resisting internal hydrostatic pressures, providing flexibility to support cell division and expansion during tissue differentiation, and acting as an environmental barrier that protects the cells in response to abiotic stress. Plant CW, comprised primarily of polysaccharides, represents the largest sink for photosynthetically fixed carbon, both in plants and in the biosphere. The CW structure is highly varied, not only between plant species but also among different organs, tissues, and cell types in the same organism. During the developmental processes, the main CW components, i.e., cellulose, pectins, hemicelluloses, and different types of CW-glycoproteins, interact constantly with each other and with the environment to maintain cell homeostasis. Differentiation processes are altered by positional effect and are also tightly linked to environmental changes, affecting CW both at the molecular and biochemical levels. The negative effect of climate change on the environment is multifaceted, from high temperatures, altered concentrations of greenhouse gases such as increasing CO 2 in the atmosphere, soil salinity, and drought, to increasing frequency of extreme weather events taking place concomitantly, therefore, climate change affects crop productivity in multiple ways. Rising CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere is expected to increase photosynthetic rates, especially at high temperatures and under water-limited conditions. This review aims to synthesize current knowledge regarding the effects of climate change on CW biogenesis and modification. We discuss specific cases in crops of interest carrying cell wall modifications that enhance tolerance to climate change-related stresses; from cereals such as rice, wheat, barley, or maize to dicots of interest such as brassica oilseed, cotton, soybean, tomato, or potato. This information could be used for the rational design of genetic engineering traits that aim to increase the stress tolerance in key crops. Future growing conditions expose plants to variable and extreme climate change factors, which negatively impact global agriculture, and therefore further research in this area is critical.

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Plant Cell Walls Tackling Climate Change: Biotechnological Strategies to Improve Crop Adaptations and Photosynthesis in Response to Global Warming

Ezquer

Salameh

Colombo

et al. 2020

Plants

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“…There is, in addition, good evidence that public discourse in many world regions commonly articulates the pros and cons of climate change policies in moral terms (Adger, Butler and Walker-Springett, 2017). Psychologists highlight the connection between people's moral stances and attitudes to climate change (Wolsko, Ariceaga and Seiden, 2016) and show how the desire to maintain a group's moral standing extends to action on climate change (Bain and Bongiorno, 2020).…”

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“…As such, there is considerable evidence that-rather than narrow economic argumentsappeals to moral principles resonate more deeply and lead to better outcomes on climate change action (Corner and Randall, 2011;Bain and Bongiorno, 2020).…”

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Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences

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Song

Morrison

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Decisions about climate change are inherently moral. They require making moral judgements about important values and the desired state of the present and future world. Hence there are potential benefits in explaining climate action by integrating well-established and emerging knowledge on the role of morality in decision-making. Insights from the social and behavioural sciences can help ground climate change decisions in empirical understandings of how moral values and worldviews manifest in people and societies. Here, we provide an overview of progress in research on morals in the behavioural and social sciences, with an emphasis on empirical research. We highlight the role morals play in motivating and framing climate decisions; outline work describing morals as relational, situated, and dynamic; and review how uneven power dynamics between people and groups with multiple moralities shape climate decision-making. Effective and fair climate decisions require practical understandings of how morality manifests to shape decisions and action. To this end, we aim to better connect insights from social and behavioural scholarship on morality with realworld climate change decision-making.

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“…Nevertheless, to date, only limited attention has been paid to the demand side of energy transition. Recent, yet scarce, examples of research in the demand side include the multiple dimensions of structural changes [15] ; the role and readiness of individuals and households [16] ; psychological barriers at the household level [17] , the importance of social innovation and systemic forms of social change [18] ; challenges of energy sufficiency [19] and living within planetary boundaries; social justice [20] and gender aspects [21] .…”

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The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

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Lieu

Şorman

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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Quantitative systems modelling in support of climate policy has tended to focus more on the supply side in assessing interactions among technology, economy, environment, policy and society. By contrast, the demand side is usually underrepresented, often emphasising technological options for energy efficiency improvements. In this perspective, we argue that scientific support to climate action is not only about exploring capacity of “what”, in terms of policy and outcome, but also about assessing feasibility and desirability, in terms of “when”, “where” and especially for “whom”. Without the necessary behavioural and societal transformations, the world faces an inadequate response to the climate crisis challenge. This could result from poor uptake of low-carbon technologies, continued high-carbon intensive lifestyles, or economy-wide rebound effects. For this reason, we propose a framing for a holistic and transdisciplinary perspective on the role of human choices and behaviours in influencing the low-carbon transition, starting from the desires of individuals and communities, and analysing how these interact with the energy and economic landscape, leading to systemic change at the macro-level. In making a case for a political ecology agenda, we expand our scope, from comprehending the role of societal acceptance and uptake of end-use technologies, to co-developing knowledge with citizens from non-mainstream and marginalised communities, and to defining the modelling requirements to assess the decarbonisation potential of shifting lifestyle patterns in climate change and action.

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It's not too late to do the right thing: Moral motivations for climate change action

Cited by 16 publications

References 53 publications

Plant Cell Walls Tackling Climate Change: Biotechnological Strategies to Improve Crop Adaptations and Photosynthesis in Response to Global Warming

Plant Cell Walls Tackling Climate Change: Biotechnological Strategies to Improve Crop Adaptations and Photosynthesis in Response to Global Warming

Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences

The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

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