Covid 19 Versus Climate Change Impacts: Lesson Learned During the Pandemic

Prioritising climate change actions post COVID-19 amongst university students; a Q methodology perspective in the United Arab Emirates

“…Our initial Q-set consisted of 321 statements, which were selected from primary and secondary sources relevant to the topic. Primary sources were obtained through interviews with 85 students from across 8 UAE universities (Amity University, American University of Sharjah, Candian University Dubai, Hamdan Bin Zayed Smart University, Zayed University, AbuDhabi University, Jumeirah University and Higher Colleges of Technology), who were contacted for virtual meetings where the topic was discussed; and secondary sources were statements derived from the literature (Coogan & Herrington, 2011;Ward, 2010, Sulistiawati & Linnan, 2020, Manzanedo & Manning, 2020. All statements were representative of the research topic and covered significant sub-issues related to the impact of COVID-19 on climate change, the governmental responsibility for climate efforts and the importance of implementing regulations post-pandemic.…”

“…An alternative scenario is to assume that people have seen that adaptation to change is possible and are willing to accept or adopt to similar restrictions post-pandemic in order to reduce GHG emissions (Jackson et al, 2020). Some commentators have observed that there are similarities between the COVID-19 crisis and the climate emergency (Manzanedo, 2020;Sulistiawati, 2020). Both crises present a global problem, which requires international cooperation to reduce its impacts.…”

Prioritising climate change actions post COVID-19 amongst university students; a Q methodology perspective in the United Arab Emirates

“…Our initial Q-set consisted of 321 statements, which were selected from primary and secondary sources relevant to the topic. Primary sources were obtained through interviews with 85 students from across 8 UAE universities (Amity University, American University of Sharjah, Candian University Dubai, Hamdan Bin Zayed Smart University, Zayed University, AbuDhabi University, Jumeirah University and Higher Colleges of Technology), who were contacted for virtual meetings where the topic was discussed; and secondary sources were statements derived from the literature (Coogan & Herrington, 2011;Ward, 2010, Sulistiawati & Linnan, 2020, Manzanedo & Manning, 2020. All statements were representative of the research topic and covered significant sub-issues related to the impact of COVID-19 on climate change, the governmental responsibility for climate efforts and the importance of implementing regulations post-pandemic.…”

“…An alternative scenario is to assume that people have seen that adaptation to change is possible and are willing to accept or adopt to similar restrictions post-pandemic in order to reduce GHG emissions (Jackson et al, 2020). Some commentators have observed that there are similarities between the COVID-19 crisis and the climate emergency (Manzanedo, 2020;Sulistiawati, 2020). Both crises present a global problem, which requires international cooperation to reduce its impacts.…”

Taxation of Global Commons as a Tool to Reduce Economic Inequalities and Strengthen the Resilience of Tax Systems

“…To really save the climate would require energy and environmental policies that can radically change the structure of the world economic system, leading it toward the gradual abandonment of fossil fuels. For more on this, see Evans (2020) and Sulistiawati and Linnan (2020).) Emissions fell even during the financial crisis of 2008 and the oil shocks of the 1970s, but then rose again once the emergency was over.…”