Can Climate Change Vulnerability Motivate Countries to Invest in Climate Mitigation?
(2024) STVK04 20232Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Climate change is an ever-increasing global phenomenon that affects the world on many levels, most notably environmentally. As some countries have better resources than others, and some are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than others, climate change has a varied priority among the countries in the world. The way to prevent climate change from increasing is through acts of climate mitigation, which countries have started spending more and more money on. There is no prior research investigating the relationship between a country’s vulnerability to climate change and how much money they spend on climate mitigation. This paper aims to investigate the correlation between how vulnerable a country is to climate change and how... (More)
- Climate change is an ever-increasing global phenomenon that affects the world on many levels, most notably environmentally. As some countries have better resources than others, and some are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than others, climate change has a varied priority among the countries in the world. The way to prevent climate change from increasing is through acts of climate mitigation, which countries have started spending more and more money on. There is no prior research investigating the relationship between a country’s vulnerability to climate change and how much money they spend on climate mitigation. This paper aims to investigate the correlation between how vulnerable a country is to climate change and how much of their total GDP they spend on climate mitigation, using a regression analysis. The present study indicates a negative correlation, indicating that the most vulnerable countries spend less money on climate mitigation than the least vulnerable countries. This could suggest that climate adaptation would be a more appropriate variable to use together with vulnerability. (Less)
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- author
- Eriksson, Robin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK04 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Climate Change, climate mitigation, climate politics, vulnerability
- language
- English
- id
- 9143723
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- 2024-03-12 15:07:52
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@misc{9143723, abstract = {{Climate change is an ever-increasing global phenomenon that affects the world on many levels, most notably environmentally. As some countries have better resources than others, and some are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than others, climate change has a varied priority among the countries in the world. The way to prevent climate change from increasing is through acts of climate mitigation, which countries have started spending more and more money on. There is no prior research investigating the relationship between a country’s vulnerability to climate change and how much money they spend on climate mitigation. This paper aims to investigate the correlation between how vulnerable a country is to climate change and how much of their total GDP they spend on climate mitigation, using a regression analysis. The present study indicates a negative correlation, indicating that the most vulnerable countries spend less money on climate mitigation than the least vulnerable countries. This could suggest that climate adaptation would be a more appropriate variable to use together with vulnerability.}}, author = {{Eriksson, Robin}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Can Climate Change Vulnerability Motivate Countries to Invest in Climate Mitigation?}}, year = {{2024}}, }