Troubled Times Article Swipe
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· 2023
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8621-5_2
· OA: W4324278628
The twenty-first century has witnessed an escalation of global shocks, like COVID-19 and the global financial crisis, exacerbated by rapid climate change. Understanding these risks is fundamental to dealing with them. In that context, climate change represents the greatest rift between scientific knowledge and policy actions to tackle a problem. A basic realization in the era of climate change is that if natural disasters were once considered as pure acts of nature, global warming signifies that they are partly human-induced. Therefore, they can no longer be considered one-off, but rather part of a pattern that must be influenced by policy. The principal action on climate change is achieving net zero carbon by phasing out humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, and mobilizing large financing to enable a low-carbon transition.
