Raising Long-Term Awareness: EU Environmental Policy and Education

Sarti, Mirella; John, Sarah K. St.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04230-1_8

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“…The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed serious public concern regarding the environmental quality, and this includes international frameworks (Millennium Development Goals and SDGs), impact assessment laws and formation of state ecological organizations (Frank et al, 2000;Sharif et al, 2020a). It has been found that rising environmental awareness is one of major successes of these institutions (Constant and Davin, 2018;Sarti and John, 2019). Akerlof (2017) further suggests three conditional factors which can enhance the role of environmental awareness in mitigating issues related to environmental degradation.…”

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How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries

Zafar

Shahbaz

Sinha³

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Designing a comprehensive policy framework for ascertaining sustainable development is a problem faced by most of the countries around the globe, and the developed nations are no exception to that. Environmental awareness-oriented policy design for achieving sustainable development goals is a challenge for the developed nations, and there lies the contribution of this study. This study analyzes the impact of renewable energy on carbon emissions, in presence of education, natural resource abundance, foreign direct investment, and economic growth for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries over the period of 1990-2015. Second generation methodologies are adapted for the empirical estimation. The results show the stimulating role of renewable energy consumption in shaping environmental quality. Education declines carbon emissions. Natural resource abundance and foreign direct investment deteriorate environmental quality. Moreover, the time series individual country analysis also confirms that renewable energy has a positive impact on economic growth. The heterogeneous causality analysis reveals the feedback effect, i.e., bidirectional causal associations among carbon emissions, education, and renewable energy consumption. This empirical evidence suggests that countries should increase investment in education and renewable energy sectors and plan for research and development in renewable energy for ensuring environmental sustainability.

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How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries

Zafar

Shahbaz

Sinha³

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

313

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“…While most existing studies have examined China's food systems' environmental impacts until 2050, our results have shown that the population policy's effects only become significant after 2050 because that is when most new-born become adults whose food requirements reaching the maximum environmental impacts. While many non-structural environmental policies, such as raising environmental awareness and promoting healthy diet patterns, take decades to be effective, many structural policies, such as irrigation infrastructure, are at risk being locked-in [59].Therefore, it is important for policymakers to look beyond the mid-term and adopt longer term perspectives. (3) Last but not least, by adopting the national age and gender-specific dietary guidelines, our results determine the minimal environmental impacts of the food system in China, which lays the foundation for future studies and for policymakers to evaluate the trade-offs with other sector policies as well as to explore potential synergies.…”

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Demographic Scenarios of Future Environmental Footprints of Healthy Diets in China

Han

Chai

Liao

2020

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Dietary improvement not only benefits human health conditions, but also offers the potential to reduce the human food system’s environmental impact. With the world’s largest population and people’s bourgeoning lifestyle, China’s food system is set to impose increasing pressures on the environment. We evaluated the minimum environmental footprints, including carbon footprint (CF), water footprint (WF) and ecological footprint (EF), of China’s food systems into 2100. The minimum footprints of healthy eating are informative to policymakers when setting the environmental constraints for food systems. The results demonstrate that the minimum CF, WF and EF all increase in the near future and peak around 2030 to 2035, under different population scenarios. After the peak, population decline and aging result in decreasing trends of all environmental footprints until 2100. Considering age-gender specific nutritional needs, the food demands of teenagers in the 14–17 year group require the largest environmental footprints across the three indicators. Moreover, men’s nutritional needs also lead to larger environmental footprints than women’s across all age groups. By 2100, the minimum CF, WF and EF associated with China’s food systems range from 616 to 899 million tons, 654 to 953 km3 and 6513 to 9500 billion gm2 respectively under different population scenarios. This study builds a bridge between demography and the environmental footprints of diet and demonstrates that the minimum environmental footprints of diet could vary by up to 46% in 2100 under different demographic scenarios. The results suggest to policymakers that setting the environmental constraints of food systems should be integrated with the planning of a future demographic path.

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“…As a consequence of public awareness in the latter part of the twentieth century, many state-level ecological organizations were formed. 2 Because of people's increased environmental awareness, these institutions have achieved tremendous results 5 suggested three crucial characteristics that might promote environmental consciousness in this situation. To begin, affective policy tools must address individual behavior.…”

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Renewable energy consumption and its impact on environmental quality: A pathway for achieving sustainable development goals in ASEAN countries

Amin

Shabbir

Song

et al. 2022

Energy & Environment

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Developing an inclusive policy agenda for ensuring sustainable development is a challenge for both developed and developing countries. The developing countries face challenges in designing policy that achieves sustainable development goals based on environmental awareness, and that is one of the main contributions of this research. By taking into account the SDG 13 (climate action) and 7 (clean and affordable energy) this study examines the influence of education, natural resource availability, financial development, urbanization, and economic growth for ASEAN nations from 1991 to 2018. For an empirical estimate, second-generation approaches are used. The findings demonstrate the energizing influence of renewable energy usage in altering the environmental quality. According to the empirical findings, renewable energy and education lower CO2 emissions by 0.46% and 0.22%, respectively. Financial development, urbanization, and natural resource depletion all have a 0.14%, 0.03%, and 0.08% impact on the environment, respectively. The heterogeneous causality analysis reveals the feedback effect, i.e., bidirectional causal links between education, carbon emissions, and the use of renewable energy. This empirical data implies that nations should enhance investment in renewable energy and education sectors, as well as prepare for renewable energy research and development, to ensure environmental sustainability. This research has policy implications for ASEAN countries in terms of renewable energy and education investments. Through this agenda, the objectives of SDG 13 and SDG 7 will be achieved, while SDG 4 will be targeted.

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Raising Long-Term Awareness: EU Environmental Policy and Education

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries

How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries

Demographic Scenarios of Future Environmental Footprints of Healthy Diets in China

Renewable energy consumption and its impact on environmental quality: A pathway for achieving sustainable development goals in ASEAN countries

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