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Eco‐Initiatives and Commitment to the Equator Principles

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Equator Principles (EP) score is a performance code for financial institutions (FIs) based on their commitment to managing environmental issues in project financing. This study examines the impact of environmental initiatives on the adoption of the EP by 204 US financial firms (including banks, insurance companies, investment banks, asset ...
Post Raj Pokharel, Munirah Sarhan ALQahtani   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change Exposure and Corporate Commitment to SDG 15 (Life on Land): Evidence From S&P 1500 Firms

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The prominent issue at the firm level in US firms is increasing exposure to climate change risk. As climate‐related pressures intensify, firms are expected to play a greater role in supporting global sustainability goals, particularly those aimed at preserving terrestrial ecosystems. This raises an important question: how does climate exposure
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Biodiversity Exposure: How Firms Create Value Through SDG 15 Engagement

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss is no longer a distant ecological concern but an immediate economic reality and it is now a critical dimension of firm‐level risk. At the same time, global sustainability frameworks such as SDG 15: Life on Land call for urgent corporate action to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems.
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme rainfall in southern China in April 2024 and its potential link to weather events across south Asia

Weather, EarlyView.
This study documents the unseasonal and prolonged heavy rain events which occurred in southern China during April 2024. In this series of extreme rainfall events, Guangdong province recorded extreme rainfall exceeding 6‐sigma of climatology, with eleven cities reporting record‐breaking rainfall.
Wai‐Po Tse, Chun‐Wing Choy, Pak‐Wai Chan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

January 2019 snowstorms over the Balkan Peninsula

Weather, EarlyView.
Northern Greece lacks peer‐reviewed case studies of major snowstorms. This article analyses two January 2019 snowstorms in the Balkan Peninsula and explains why snowfall was extreme at parts of Northern Greece. Satellite imagery shows sharp local contrasts in snow cover and persistence.
Angelos Theodorou
wiley   +1 more source

Terrain Synthesis and Authoring based on Iso‐Contours

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital terrains are central to realistic landscape depiction, yet authoring tools must balance perceptual realism with intuitive artistic control. We propose a compact vector‐based representation that models terrain as nested iso‐contours, inspired by geomorphology and cartography.
B. Huftier, H. Schott, E. Galin, O. Argudo, A. Peytavie, E. Guérin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard, Kelly Redouté, María Gabriela Durán Valis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
wiley   +1 more source

Atom Probe Tomography experiments performed in a (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscope [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Lefebvre Williams, Da Costa Gérald, Celia Castro, Normand Antoine, Vaudolon Charly, Zakirov Aidar, Macchi Juan, Ilhami Mohammed, Vurpillot François   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

U–Pb Dating of Cambrian Magmatism in the Pinerolo‐Sanfront Unit, Dora‐Maira Massif (Western Alps)

Terra Nova, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pinerolo‐Sanfront Unit (PSU), the structurally lowest tectonic unit of the Dora‐Maira Massif (Western Alps), has been regarded as a monocyclic unit composed of Permo‐Carboniferous sediments and Permian granitoids that were metamorphosed during the Alpine orogeny.
Francesco De Cesari, Davide Dana, Salvatore Iaccarino, Chiara Montomoli, Alberto Corno, Daniela Rubatto, Rodolfo Carosi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source