Beyond promises: Realities of climate finance justice and energy transitions in Asia and the Pacific

AI’s contribution to combating climate change and achieving environmental justice in the global economy

“…According to the updated definition, a new approach to ensuring environmental justice using high technologies of industry 4.0, and first of all AI, has been proposed. In contrast to the existing publications (Ali et al, 2016;Anantharajah and Setyowati, 2022;Furlan and Mariano, 2022;He et al, 2022;Islam, 2022), the article proposes to combat climate change based not on social but technological progress. In addition, the article determines the causes of climate change and demonstrates that social factors only indirectly affect them, while technological factors make it possible to eliminate these causes.…”

“…In this regard, the concept of environmental justice has taken shape as equal opportunities for countries to protect the environment (Budolfson et al, 2021;Cappelli et al, 2021;Dagdeviren et al, 2021;Gazzotti et al, 2021;Pérez-Peña et al, 2021;Yang and Tang, 2022). Based on this concept, an approach to ensuring environmental justice through responsible production (corporate social responsibility) and consumption has developed (Ali et al, 2016;Anantharajah and Setyowati, 2022;Furlan and Mariano, 2022;He et al, 2022;Islam, 2022). The problem is that the concept and approach to ensuring environmental justice based on experience do not correspond to the new realities.…”

Introduction to the Special Issue: Planning for Climate Transformations

“…From this perspective, responding to climate change requires not only shifting surface-level operational practices, but also sub-surface relationships, power dynamics, processes, and even deeper mindsets, values, identities, and priorities (Moser et al 2019). Transformation now also applies to climate mitigation, such that decarbonization should not only replace fossil fuels with renewables and reduce emissions, but also repair environmental and economic harms in frontline communities (Chapman and Ahmed 2021; Fitzgerald 2022b; Schlosberg and Collins 2014; Williams 2020).…”

Building Climate-Resilient Food Systems in East and South-East Asia: Vulnerabilities, Responses and Financing

“…For Indonesia, only 13.2 billion USD was from private businesses and invested in building climate resilience between 2015 and 2018. The country has a shortfall of 247 billion USD needed to meet the national emission reduction target by 2030 [71] . In particular, financing loopholes elsewhere are even more considerable.…”