Croissance démographique et changement climatique : repenser nos politiques dans le cadre des limites planétaires

Bourban, Michel

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“…Building on Caney's valuable reminder that all three IPAT factors are important, societies that took GCC seriously might work to shift the impact of all three factors downwards simultaneously, as quickly and humanely as possible. Bourban (2019) notes that the validation of IPAT within climate science has allowed policy analysts to focus on whichever one of the three factors they chose, often to argue against action regarding the others. He believes this is a mistake, writing: “The IPAT equation should not be used to emphasize any one of its three main factors over the others: it should be used to fully consider each of them.…”

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“…The planetary boundaries approach developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre identifies nine global ecological thresholds that humanity needs to avoid crossing to preserve essential ecosystem services, several of which have already been breached (Higgs, 2017; Steffen et al, 2015, 2018). Seeing GCC as part of a larger suite of environmental threats tempers hopes that technological or managerial fixes alone might solve these problems, encouraging us to consider reductions in consumption, production, and human numbers as well (Bourban, 2019; Cafaro, 2014).…”

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Climate ethics and population policy: A review of recent philosophical work

Cafaro

2021

WIREs Climate Change

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It is well‐established that human population growth is a leading cause of increased greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating global climate change. After decades of neglect, philosophical ethicists have, over the past decade, taken up the issue of climate change and population policy and there are now numerous articles and books which explore the subject. Both rights‐based and consequentialist approaches seek to balance reproductive rights against other human rights and interests threatened by overpopulation and ecological degradation. While biocentric ethicists have additional reasons to advocate for smaller human populations, even anthropocentrists affirm the need to balance reproductive rights against reproductive responsibilities in order to promote the well‐being of future generations. There is a particularly strong consensus on the value of choice‐enhancing population policies that reduce fertility voluntarily, such as securing universal access to modern contraception and promoting equal rights and opportunities for women. There is strong support for government policies that incentivize smaller families, some support for policies that disincentivize larger ones, and little to no support for punitive policies. Many ethicists warn that failure to enact reasonable population policies now may necessitate harsher policies in the future, a common theme in climate ethics generally. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change

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Climate ethics and population policy: A review of recent philosophical work

Cafaro

2021

WIREs Climate Change

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“…L'Afrique subsaharienne devrait devenir la plus peuplée des huit régions géographiques vers 2062, dépassant en taille l'Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est et l'Asie centrale et du Sud (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2021). L'augmentation de la taille de la population s'accompagne des grands défis notamment sur la réalisation des Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD) (Bourban, 2019).…”

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“…Réduire les émissions de CO2 passe donc par une réduction des deux sources de croissance, et sans doute même les deux, étant donné qu'elles sont fortement liées. Autrement dit, réduire la cause principale du changement climatique suppose de réduire la croissance démographique et/ou la croissance économique (Bourban, 2019). La lutte contre les changements climatiques en général et la réduction des émissions de CO2 passe par plusieurs actions parmi lesquelles la préservation des forêts et la reforestation.…”

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Croissance démographique et développement durable : Cas des pays du Bassin du Congo

Fotio,

Tabi,

Kamdem

et al. 2023

Rev. Afr. Environ. Agric.

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Description du sujet. Les forêts jouent un rôle important dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques. C’est le cas du Bassin du Congo qui est le second plus grand écosystème forestier tropical après l’Amazonie. Au-delà du rôle joué sur le cycle du carbone, ces forêts d’Afrique centrale offrent des moyens de subsistance à 60 millions de personnes qui y vivent ou résident à proximité. La préservation des forêts du bassin du Congo est ainsi au centre des préoccupations internationales notamment à travers l’agenda 2021 des Nations unies promeut la gestion durable et la gestion durable des forêts.Objectif. L’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer les effets de la croissance démographique sur le développement durable des pays du Bassin du Congo (BC).Méthodes. A partir des données de panel couvrant la période 1990- 2018 issues de WDI Banque mondiale, UNDP DATABASE et d’United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019), l’on a utilisé l’approche STIRPAT (Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population and technology) et de la méthode d’estimation des Moments Généralisés (GMM) en panel dynamique.Résultats. Les résultats montrent que lorsque la population augmente de 1,00 % dans les pays du BC, le taux de déforestation augmente 0,30 % et lorsque la population urbaine augmente de 1,00 % dans les pays du BC, le taux de déforestation augmente 5,22 %. Par contre, lorsque le PIB/Habitant et l’IDH augmente de de 1,00 %, le taux de déforestation diminue respectivement de 0,09 % et de 5,49 %.Conclusion. Pour réduire l’effet de la croissance démographique sur les écosystèmes du Bassin, il faut améliorer le niveau de vie des populations. Description of the subject. Forests play an important role in the fight against climate change. This is the case of the Congo Basin, which is the second largest tropical forest ecosystem after the Amazon. Beyond the role played on the carbon cycle, these Central African forests have provided the means of subsistence for the 60 million people who live there or live nearby. The preservation of the Congo Basin forests is thus at the center of international concerns, in particular through the United Nations 2021 agenda promoting sustainable management and sustainable management of forests.Objective. The objective of this article is to assess the effects of population growth on the sustainable development of the countries of the Congo Basin (BC).Methods. Using panel data covering the period 1990-2018 from WDI World Bank, UNDP DATABASE and United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019), the STIRPAT (Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population and technology) and the Generalized Moments Estimation (GMM) method in dynamic panel.Results. The results show that when the population increases by 1,00 % in BC countries, the deforestation rate increases by 0.3 % and when the urban population increases by 1.00 % in BC countries, the deforestation rate increases by 5. 22 %. On the other hand, when the GDP/Capita and the HDI increase by 1.00 %, the deforestation rate decreases by 0.09 % and 5.49 % respectively.Conclusion. To reduce the effect of population growth on the ecosystems of the Basin, the standard of living of the populations must be improved.

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“…Philosophers have explored three types of population growth reduction measures to help combat climate change: education and empowerment, which lead to voluntary measures to reduce family size (Cafaro 2012); negative and positive incentives, which encourage individuals to have small families (Hickey et al 2016); and coercive measures, which legally sanction parents who have too many children (Conly 2016). These political measures have varying degrees of effectiveness, feasibility, and ethical acceptability, but in our context of scarce global carbon budget and overpopulation, a small family ethics becomes more and more compelling (Rieder 2016;Bourban 2019).…”

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Climate Ethics

Bourban

2023

Handbook of the Anthropocene

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This article outlines key developments in the philosophical literature on climate change. The allocation of the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas emissions between states and individual duties of climate justice are two major topics that climate ethics scholars have discussed by drawing on deontological theory, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. This article explores the connections between ethics and climate justice to present these two topics. In addition, it introduces three emerging sub-fields in climate ethics: the ethics of climate engineering, non-anthropocentric climate ethics, and the ethics of procreation. It concludes that as the remaining global carbon budget dwindles, radical lifestyle changes become more and more pressing and should move to the forefront of the debate.

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Croissance démographique et changement climatique : repenser nos politiques dans le cadre des limites planétaires

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Climate ethics and population policy: A review of recent philosophical work

Climate ethics and population policy: A review of recent philosophical work

Croissance démographique et développement durable : Cas des pays du Bassin du Congo

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