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The spatial-temporal patterns of heatwave hazard impacts on wheat in northern China under extreme climate scenarios

open access: yesGeomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019
Revealing the future spatial-temporal patterns of heatwave impacts on crops due to global climate change is of great scientific significance for climate change-related agricultural hazards prevention.
Qinghua Jiang, Yaojie Yue, Lu Gao
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Projection of Future Heat Waves in the United States. Part I: Selecting a Climate Model Subset

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2020
The widespread increase in global temperature is driving more frequent and more severe local heatwaves within the contiguous United States (CONUS). General circulation models (GCMs) show increasing, but spatially uneven trends in heatwave properties ...
Javad Shafiei Shiva, David G. Chandler
doaj   +1 more source

Do High Temperatures Affect Firm Demography? Evidence From Italy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the impact of high temperatures and heat stress on Italian firm demography during 2009–2022. Combining provincial‐firm‐level data with a high‐resolution multidecadal meteorological dataset, we investigate whether high temperatures—absolute and anomalous—affect firm entry and exit rates.
Concetta Carnevale   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SDG Forward Faster in the Face of Geopolitical and Climate Risks: Does CEO Power Strengthen This Relationship?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a macroeconomic environment characterised by systemic disruptions and global uncertainty, companies are forced to reconfigure their sustainability strategies. This study examines the combined impact of geopolitical and climate risks on corporate commitment to and actual progress toward the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals ...
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

Concurrent drought and heatwave events over the Asian monsoon region: insights from a statistically downscaling CMIP6 dataset

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters
Concurrent drought and heatwave (CONDH) can cause tremendous ramifications on socioeconomic activities and human health, and the drought-heatwave (D-H) dependence was revealed to be one of the major factors of the CONDH across most global land regions ...
Lianlian Xu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Culture experiment with microalgae metacommunities on effects of a regional heatwave disturbance on species diversity and turnover

open access: yes, 2020
In a culture experiment with microalgae metacommunities, we tested the effects of a regional heatwave disturbance on species diversity (richness, Shannon diversity) and turnover.
Eriksson, Britas Klemens   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Climate Risk and Real Estate Markets in the EU: Institutional Control Through Regulation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly reshaping the economic foundations of asset markets, yet its implications for the estate sector remain unevenly understood, particularly when institutional and financial mechanisms mediate risk transmission. While a growing body of evidence links climate vulnerability to property valuation and market behaviour ...
Qiulin Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of the effects of maternal exposure to heatwave on birth outcomes in Brisbane, Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Even though heatwave events have become more frequent and intense in most regions around the world, little is known about the impact of heatwave on birth outcomes.
Wang, Jiajia
core  

The Largest Ever Recorded Heatwave—Characteristics and Attribution of the Antarctic Heatwave of March 2022

open access: yes, 2023
An unprecedented heatwave impacted East Antarctica in March 2022, peaking at 39°C above climatology, the largest temperature anomaly ever recorded globally.
Tyler Cox   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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