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Record W7117568236 · doi:10.31579/2578-8949/189

The Role of Antibiotics in Climate Change

2025· article· W7117568236 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Rehan Haider

Bibliographic record

VenueDermatology and Dermatitis · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of Calgary
KeywordsGreenhouse gasClimate changeSustainabilityAntibioticsAntibiotic resistanceSustainable developmentCarbon footprintPublic health

Abstract

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Antibiotics, widely used to combat infections, have an unintended impact on the environment, contributing to climate change through their production, application, and disposal. The pharmaceutical sector is a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollutants throughout the antibiotic manufacturing process, exacerbating global warming. Additionally, improper antibiotic disposal leads to environmental contamination, promoting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and disrupting microbial ecosystems essential for the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Moreover, their use in livestock increases methane emissions and soil degradation. Addressing this dual challenge—AMR and climate change—requires sustainable practices in antibiotic production, distribution, and waste management. Strategies such as implementing green chemistry in drug manufacturing, exploring alternative therapies, and enhancing wastewater treatment processes can significantly reduce pharmaceutical pollution. Policies must focus on minimizing antibiotic misuse while mitigating the environmental consequences of pharmaceutical waste. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is essential to tackle the interconnected challenges posed by antibiotics and climate change. Developing sustainable solutions will help maintain both public health and ecological balance while reducing the long-term environmental footprint of antibiotic usage.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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