University of the Punjab Conference Portal, First Symposium on Energy and Environment

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Industrialization and Climate Change: A Distributional Analysis across Regions
Amina Qureshi, Dr Muhammad Jamil

##manager.scheduler.building##: Centre for Coal Technology
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Date: 2019-12-13 03:30 PM – 03:50 PM
Last modified: 2019-12-03

Abstract


Climate change is globally realised and its repercussions are being felt across different regions. Policies to control the effects of climate change should be subject to severity of issue in the regions. Due to this a comprehensive study is required to examine the level of climate change across different regions. The study explores the extent of climate change across seven different geographical regions. Further, linkage between the economic statuses of countries (through degree of industrialization and through the level of income group) with climate change is examined through spatial analysis. For this purpose, climate change is measured through deviation of temperature from thirty years average (1961-90) as reference period. In addition to temperature, study also used change in precipitation as part of the climate change. To gauge recent climate fluctuations, study analysed climate variability across these regions. Data used in the analysis was from Climate Research Unit (U.K.) for the period of 1961 to 2018. For climate modelling, Geographic Information System (GIS) has been employed to examine the spatial patterns. From the spatial analysis it is observed that countries with high degree of industrialization also experienced high level of climate change. Further, it is also observed that climate change is heterogeneous across all the regions.