Human Resource Development's Role in Communicating the Risk of Climate Change and Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavioural Changes

Human Resource Development's Role in Communicating the Risk of Climate Change and Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavioural Changes

Kiosha Ramlachan, Andrisha Beharry Ramraj
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7967-1.ch010
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Abstract

The notion of climate change has been identified and described as one of the foremost pressing environmental challenges of the current century. A large portion of credible scientists have agreed that climate change threatens irreversible and dangerous consequences on the earth's ecosystem as a whole. The mitigation of these potential consequences and impacts demands immediate, significant, as well as sustained changes and actions. Given the importance of the above, it is promising that various human resource development (HRD) researchers have taken an eager interest and fascination in environmental issues as well as sustainability.
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Climate Change

It is a council of perfection that across the globe temperatures have become warmer and warmer over the years (Girvetz, Rosenstock & Nowak, 2019). Worldwide, the well-being of people is significantly threatened by the risks of climate change and the recent events of extreme weather have highlighted that the magnitude of these risks is uncomfortably high already (Holland & Young, 2020). Globally, climate change risks are well documented and promises of action have been made by no less than 190 countries that signed the 2015 Paris Agreement (Holland & Young, 2020). The Paris Agreement (COP21) is legally binding but voluntarily pledged (Clementon, 2016). The aim of the Paris Agreement amongst other things was to strengthen the response to the climate change threats by the global world in an effort to eradicate poverty and ensure sustainable development. The agreement had targets to pursue all efforts limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees celcius and the long-term objective to ensure that by 2060 to 2080 there are zero-emissions in the world (Clemencon, 2016).

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