16/04/2022
Q: What legislative changes should politicians implement to meet citizens' expectations regarding the urgent implementation of the pro-environmental transformation?
More research results confirm that global warming is accelerating and that the development of civilization in the last centuries is responsible for these unfavorable climate changes.
On August 9, 2021, based on the analysis of 14,000 scientific papers, the sixth IPCC Report, "Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis," was published, i.e., a report summarizing the current and predicted climate changes prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change operating at the United Nations.
It is another report on climate change issues, the progressing global warming process, the adverse effects of this process, civilization greenhouse gas emissions responsible for the ongoing climate change, predictive modeling of future climate changes, and the impact of these changes on the biosphere and human civilization.
The IPCC mentioned above Report shows that without a rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the next 20 years, the accelerated process of global warming will continue.
In such a situation, the temperature will increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius by around 2040, not 2050 as previously thought - compared to the state at the beginning of the first industrial revolution. As a result of this acceleration of the global warming process, it will accelerate feedback to be activated in 2-3 decades, and the methods of global warming.
An additional adverse effect will be the entry of the accelerating process of global warming into the phase of the irreversibility of this process. To slow down the progressing global warming process and the growing risk of a climate catastrophe threatening humanity, which may occur in the next several dozen years. It is necessary to quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to complete reduction and capture excess CO2 from the atmosphere.
According to the mathematical forecasting models for long-term climate change forecasting, we should implement this plan within the next dozen or so years.
Suppose this plan to quickly implement the economy's pro-environmental transformation is not implemented in the coming years. Climate warming will further limit food production, the frequency and scale of droughts and forest fires will increase, and soil sterilization in arable lands. The scale of the migration crisis will increase, and the process of extinction of flora and fauna species will accelerate, which will mean the continuation of the rapid decline in the biodiversity of natural ecosystems, etc.
Therefore, humanity has little time to counteract the climate catastrophe and save the biosphere, climate, and itself. Due to the growing risk of a global climate crisis occurring in the next several dozen years, it is necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly.
It is necessary to eliminate the critical factor of the growing risk of the emergence of a global climate crisis: the civilization's emission of greenhouse gases causing accelerating global warming.
We already know what to do in this matter. The main determinants of the implementation of the reduction plan include the pro-environmental transformation of the energy sector through the development of renewable energy sources. Some of the pro-environmental measures to achieve sustainable development goals and carry out a pro-environmental change of classic growth include a brown economy of excess to a sustainable, green, zero-emission economy of growth zero and closed circuit.
The process of pro-environmental transformation of the economy could occur much faster if the prices of ecological products were much lower than at present. Suppose the method of pro-environmental transformation of the economy is efficiently carried out within the currently dominant economic systems based on the social market economy model. In that case, it is necessary to drop the prices of ecological products faster, i.e., such electric and hydrogen-powered cars and other types of motor vehicles powered by hydrogen, photovoltaic panels, energy storage batteries, agricultural products produced as part of sustainable organic farming, home installations of renewable energy sources, devices for capturing CO2 from gaseous waste emissions installed in enterprises, etc.
Currently, electric or hydrogen-powered cars, home installations of photovoltaic panels, etc., are unattainable for a citizen with an average income level, in connection with the above.
What processes should be started, the implementation of which sustainable development goals should be scaled up as part of pro-environmental state intervention to significantly accelerate the process of falling prices of ecological products and pro-environmental raw materials and prefabricated products?
Now, ask once more this question:
"What should be done as part of the pro-environmental policy so that there is an increase in production in the following years and a significant decrease in the prices of organic products and raw materials?"
Sources and References:
[1] Prokopowicz, Dariusz. (2020). IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY. International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences. 11. 417-480. 10.5604/01.3001.0014.3558.
[2] Jakubczak, Weronika & Golebiowska, Anna & Prokopowicz, Dariusz & Jakubczak, Ryszard. (2021). The Key Security Problems Related to the Pro-Environmental Economic Transformation and the Implementation of the Principles of Sustainable Development into the Economy. EUROPEAN RESEARCH STUDIES JOURNAL. XXIV. 218-250. 10.35808/ersj/2654.
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