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Investment incentive reduced by climate damages can be restored by optimal policy

Nature Communications, 2021
Climate change is likely to damage economies worldwide. Here the authors show that this strongly reduces incentives to invest causing additional losses, whereas if investors include climate-change mitigation in their action portfolio they can avoid ...
Sven N. Willner, Nicole Glanemann, Anders Levermann   +2 more
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Anthropogenic influence on extreme temperature and precipitation in Central Asia

Scientific Reports, 2023
We investigate the contribution of anthropogenic forcing to the extreme temperature and precipitation events in Central Asia (CA) during the last 60 years.
Bijan Fallah, Emmanuele Russo, Christoph Menz, Peter Hoffmann, Iulii Didovets, Fred F. Hattermann   +5 more
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Modeling surge dynamics improves coastal flood estimates in a global set of tropical cyclones

Communications Earth & Environment
Tropical cyclone-induced storm surge is a major coastal risk, which will be further amplified by rising sea levels under global warming. Here, we present a computational efficient, globally applicable modeling approach in which ocean surge and coastal ...
Thomas Vogt, Simon Treu, Matthias Mengel, Katja Frieler, Christian Otto   +4 more
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The global economic long-term potential of modern biomass in a climate-constrained world

Environmental Research Letters, 2014
Low-stabilization scenarios consistent with the 2 °C target project large-scale deployment of purpose-grown lignocellulosic biomass. In case a GHG price regime integrates emissions from energy conversion and from land-use/land-use change, the strong ...
David Klein, Florian Humpenöder, Nico Bauer, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Alexander Popp, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Markus Bonsch, Hermann Lotze-Campen   +7 more
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Genetic variation in individuals from a population of the minimalist bacteriophage Merri-merri-uth nyilam marra-natj driving evolution of the virus

mBio
In a survey of a waterway on Wurundjeri land, two sub-populations of the bacteriophage Merri-merri-uth nyilam marra-natj (phage MMNM) were isolated on a permissive host, Klebsiella B5055 of capsule-type K2, but were distinguished by minor phenotypic ...
Tze Y. Thung, Alex Hall, Afif P. Jati, Murray E. White, Rebecca S. Bamert, Kher Shing Tan, Cara Press, George Taiaroa, Francesca L. Short, Rhys A. Dunstan, Trevor Lithgow   +10 more
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Decay radius of climate decision for solar panels in the city of Fresno, USA

Scientific Reports, 2021
To design incentives towards achieving climate mitigation targets, it is important to understand the mechanisms that affect individual climate decisions such as solar panel installation.
Kelsey Barton-Henry, Leonie Wenz, Anders Levermann   +2 more
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Analyzing the usage of theories of change for routine immunization programs -- a review of impact evaluations from LMICs

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Background In this article we analyzed the extent of the usage of Theories of Change (TOCs) and causal pathways in the evaluation of immunization programs to identify the challenges to generating evidence on how interventions improve immunization ...
Lalitha Vadrevu, Monica Jain, Shradha S. Parsekar   +2 more
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Transforming Long-Term Care through Evidence-Informed Innovation: Learning from Three European Centres of Excellence

Journal of Long-Term Care
Using evidence to improve public services is a key aspiration, but also a significant challenge internationally, with a number of key national investments in breaking down traditional barriers between research, policy and practice.
Maria Teresa Ferazzoli, Obert Tawodzera, Maria Nilsson, Bellis van den Berg, Maria Cheshire Allen, Karen McCormick, Mirella Minkman, Elizabeth Hanson, Lennart Magnusson, Jon Glasby   +9 more
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Citizen engagement in public services in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A mixed‐methods systematic review of participation, inclusion, transparency and accountability (PITA) initiatives

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2019
Background How do governance interventions that engage citizens in public service delivery planning, management and oversight impact the quality of and access to services and citizens’ quality of life?
Hugh Waddington, Ada Sonnenfeld, Juliette Finetti, Marie Gaarder, Denny John, Jennifer Stevenson   +5 more
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Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage

Communications Earth & Environment
The implementation and acceptance of climate policies depend on public perceptions of climate change. The media play a crucial role in informing the public discourse.
Tatjana Schirmag, Jakob H. Wedemeyer, Annika Stechemesser, Leonie Wenz   +3 more
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