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Do Corporate Governance Mechanisms Help to Reduce Carbon Emissions? Some Empirical Evidence on Listed Companies in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. In this paper, we analyze the role of firms in mitigating climate change through their model of corporate governance. We examine the impact of key organizational control and incentive mechanisms on firms' carbon emission intensity.
Cécile Cezanne, Gaye Del Lo, Yves Kassi, Sandra Rigot   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity Credits: An Overview of the Current State, Future Opportunities, and Potential Pitfalls

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity credits are an emerging vehicle for pro‐environmental financing, yet much uncertainty remains around how and when they could boost biodiversity conservation. Here we define what biodiversity credits are and explore impact pathways through a proposed theory of change. Based on evidence from 34 pilot projects and a review of lessons
Sven Wunder, Cecilia Fraccaroli, Joseph W. Bull, Trishna Dutta, Alison Eyres, Megan C. Evans, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, Julia P. G. Jones, Martine Maron, Bart Muys, Andrea Pacheco, Asger Strange Olesen, Thomas Swinfield, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Thomas B. White, Han Zhang, Sophus O. S. E. zu Ermgassen   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing air pollution exposure disparities in disadvantaged communities of Greater Boston: a new cumulative environmental justice score system

Environmental Research Letters
Disadvantaged communities in the U.S. experience higher levels of air pollution, leading to increased environmental justice (EJ) challenges. In this work, we combine socioeconomic metrics with spatially interpolated fine particulate matter and ozone ...
Khanh Do, Yang Zhang, Siqi Ma, Daniel Tong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Menstrual Health Education Using a Specialized Large Language Model in India: Development and Evaluation Study of MenstLLaMA

Journal of Medical Internet Research
BackgroundThe quality and accessibility of menstrual health education (MHE) in low- and middle-income countries, including India, remain inadequate due to persistent challenges (eg, poverty, social stigma, and gender inequality).
Prottay Kumar Adhikary, Isha Motiyani, Gayatri Oke, Maithili Joshi, Kanupriya Pathak, Salam Michael Singh, Tanmoy Chakraborty   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The duration of fixed exchange rate regimes [PDF]

This paper studies the survival of fixed exchange rate regimes. The probability of an exit from a fixed exchange rate regime depends on the time spent within this regime.
Sébastien Wälti
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Does Twin Transition Facilitate Exporting? The Case of Logistics Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms need to overcome two hurdles to enter foreign markets: deciding whether to export and the intensity of their export sales. Although logistics plays a crucial role in exporting, the link between logistics innovation and exporting remains unexplored.
Areti Gkypali, Kostas Tsekouras, Andriana G. Dimakopoulou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing Inequality and Social Welfare Changes: The Use of Alternative Welfare Metrics [PDF]

This paper presents two 'non-welfarist' approaches and one 'welfarist' approach to decompose changes in inequality and social welfare into three components. We distinguish the contributions of population, tax policy and labour supply behavioural effects.
John Creedy, Nicolas Hérault
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Ready for Change After the Omnibus Package? Early Compliance With the European Sustainability Reporting Standards and Its Key Determinants in the New Regulatory Era

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines companies' readiness for change in response to the evolving sustainability reporting regulatory landscape, shaped by the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
Giuseppe Nicolo, Giovanni Zampone, Giuseppe Sannino, Paolo Tartaglia Polcini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformative Approaches in Transitioning to a Circular Sanitation Bioeconomy in South Africa: A Scoping Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transitioning from linear flow resource management practices to a circular sanitation bioeconomy needs a transformative approach. In South Africa, the management of human excreta through resource recovery and reuse (RRR) has been widely researched and piloted.
William Musazura, Alfred Oduor Odindo, Stephen O. Ojwach   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breast cancer incidence in Indonesia: a sex-disaggregated analysis using WHO health equity assessment toolkit data

BMC Cancer
Introduction Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women globally, with notable disparities in incidence between sexes, particularly in low and middle-income countries.
Augustus Osborne, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source