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Relationship between Climate Changes against Biodiversity Loss<br />

Azalina binti Abdul Wahid<br />

Supervisor: Dr. Jaharudin bin Padli<br />

Bachelor of Economics (Natural Resources)<br />

School of Social and Economic Development<br />

Biodiversity is a very important asset in maintaining the ecosystem in the world.<br />

Hence, the loss of biodiversity is one of the global problems in these days. Specifically,<br />

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between climate changes<br />

as an independent variable against biodiversity loss as a dependent variable. The<br />

cross-sectional data for this study covered four years in 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2016<br />

using the Pooled OLS estimator method for all 111 countries. The results showed that<br />

the climate change, tourist arrivals and forest areas had a positive correlation against<br />

biodiversity loss. Besides that, the total population, land area and Gross Domestic<br />

Product (GDP) were negatively related to the dependent variable. In conclusion,<br />

conservation activities need to be carried out to overcome the biodiversity loss.<br />

1414 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018

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