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Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Are UNFCCC COPs Up To the Challenge?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) plays a crucial role in global efforts to tackle the climate crisis. At annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and intersessional meetings, the international community gathers to advance climate policy and action.
Franziska Petri, Jan Karlas
wiley   +1 more source

Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of mangrove seedlings in natural, degraded, and restored ecosystems of Guyana

Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes
Mangrove seedlings are exposed to several environmental stress factors, which frequently affect the current state of their ecosystems. We examined the density, diversity, distribution, survival rates, and biophysical parameters of over 900 naturally ...
Sabrina Dookie, Sirpaul Jaikishun, Abdullah Adil Ansari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“We Deh”: Women-Loving Women, Rurality, and Creole Linguistic Potentials

InterAlia, 2023
This paper draws on ethnographic interviews with women-loving women (WLW) in Berbice, Guyana, South America, to interrogate the Creole linguistic term “deh” as a cultural heuristic device central to the visibility politics in this rural community.
Preity Kumar
doaj   +1 more source

Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge

Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
wiley   +1 more source

Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead, David Jordan, Francis Kennedy, Jack Seddon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Oral Health in General Health National Policy Frameworks for Older Adults: Scoping Review

Gerodontology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The global rise in population ageing challenges health systems, including oral health, which is integral to overall health and quality of life. Although the World Health Organization advocates integrated care for older adults, evidence on national models integrating oral health into broader health strategies remains limited.
Manori Dhanapriyanka, Lyndal Pritchard, Angelique Zamora, Nilesh Torwane, Helena Silveira Schuch, Diep Hong Ha, Irosha Perera, Prasanna Jayasekara, Loc Do   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic-based approach to marine litter prevention in coastal environment: lessons and successes from the PROMAR project implementation in Guyana

Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability
Marine litter remains a persistent environmental challenge in Caribbean coastal environments, where land-based plastic waste constitutes the dominant source of debris entering marine systems.
Temitope D. Timothy Oyedotun, Seon Hamer, Chandane Persaud, Linda Johnson-Bhola   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

First Record of Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) Parasitizing White Mango Scale in Kenya: Its Potential Distribution and Prospects in Biocontrol

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The white mango scale, Aulacaspis tubercularis Newstead (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), is one of the most destructive pests of mango worldwide. Its current management in most of the invaded areas largely depends on the intensive use of chemical insecticides.
Francis Obala, Abdelmutalab G. A. Azrag, Rehemah Gwokyalya, Shepard Ndlela, Ingo Grass, Georg Petschenka, Sunday Ekesi, Samira A. Mohamed   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new species of inseminating catfish of the genus Tympanopleura (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) from the Ituxi River, Amazon River basin, northern Brazil, revealed by integrative taxonomy

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract A new species of the genus Tympanopleura is described from the Iquiri River, a tributary of the Ituxi River, a right‐bank tributary to the Purus River, Amazon River, northern Brazil. The new species is distinguished from all its congeners by a combination of features, such as the presence of an intensely pigmented square‐shaped blotch on the ...
Frank Raynner V. Ribeiro, Cárlison Silva‐Oliveira, Valdenor Magalhães, Lucas Gama, Lúcia H. Rapp Py‐Daniel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source