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Green swans and blue skies: Climate change and insolvency risk for financial institutions

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This lecture in honour of the late Gabriel Moss QC and Ian Fletcher QC examines the challenge of climate‐related financial risk. Prudential regulators and central banks recognize that the systemic nature of climate‐related financial risk makes it an emerging vulnerability relevant to cross‐border insolvency resolution.
Janis Sarra
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Local Revenue Mobilisation: Do Governmental Transfers and Public Investment Matter? A Case of the Western Balkan Countries

Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
Local governments in the Western Balkan countries are dependent on central governments’ transfers, with low fiscal autonomy and limited efforts for own-source revenue mobilisation.
Vesna Garvanlieva Andonova, Borce Trenovski   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contrasting Heatwave Regimes in Dry and Humid Subtropical Mexico: A Station‐Based Probabilistic Assessment

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Heatwaves have intensified under a warming climate, producing substantial environmental and societal impacts. This study characterizes heatwave regimes in two contrasting regions of Mexico using a percentile‐based threshold and a Poisson distribution framework.
Jorge Cortés‐Ramos, Ana Teresa Mendoza‐Rosas, Victor Manuel Torres‐Puente, José Francisco León‐Cruz, Evi Becerra‐Acosta, Arturo I. Quintanar, David Romero   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergovernmental Transfers: Diversity of Terms and Russian Practice

, 2018
The terminology used in numerous publications on the theory of intergovernmental transfers differs from one researcher to another. As for papers in Russian, variations in terms is augmented by differences in their translation.
N. Golovanova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Central Government Transfers and Regional Convergence in Portugal [PDF]

Over the last decades, the Portuguese economy exhibited an outstanding growth performance. This period of fast economic growth allowed the country to consistently reduce its income gap with respect to the EU average. In spite of this, regions in Portugal
Marta Ferreira Dias, Ricardo Silva
core  

Spatio‐Temporal Analysis of Human Thermal Comfort and Relationships With Large‐Scale Climate Indices Along Ghana's Coastal‐Urban Corridor From 1980 to 2020

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Four decades of UTCI data show increasing thermal stress along Ghana's coastal‐urban corridor, with very strong heat‐stress days rising by about 1.4 days/year. Random Forest–SHAP analysis with temporal validation identified AOD as the strongest model‐based predictor of monthly UTCI variability, followed by TSA, WHWP, and AMO.
Kwadwo Frimpong, Layin Zhu, Kathleen Baker, Israel Orimoloye   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergovernmental Resource Transfers: Prospects and Issues

Lahore Journal of Economics
The focus of this paper is on inter governmental resource transfers. The question of these transfers crops up because of an asymmetry between revenues and expenditures.
Mohammad Zubair Khan
doaj  

Making palaeoclimatology research policy‐relevant: Insights and experience from the DECADAL Project

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quaternary palaeoclimatology uniquely provides insights and new evidence about climate variability trends and extremes prior to the instrumental record; yet, its knowledge is rarely integrated into governmental decision‐making. This opinion piece shares lessons and experience from the UKRI‐funded DECADAL project, which bridges palaeoclimate ...
Celia Martin‐Puertas, Laura Boyall, Alice M. Milner, Ashley M. Abrook, Amen Al‐Yaari, Alice Carter‐Champion, Daisy Fallows, Katy Flowers, Paul Lincoln, Simon Blockley, Achim Brauer, Armand Hernandez, Gordon N. Inglis, Pete Langdon, Jürg Luterbacher, Antti E. K. Ojala, Adam Scaife, Didier Swingedouw, Louise Wilson   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equalization through the People’s Republic of China’s Intergovernmental Fiscal System: The Effectiveness of Central and Provincial Transfers

Asian Development Review
The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) fiscal system is characterized by very high expenditure decentralization and heavy reliance on transfers to finance public services.
XIAO TAN, YING TAN
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating Land Degradation Level Using Remote Sensing Data and Fuzzy AHP Technique

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land degradation is a critical global environmental concern that significantly impacts ecosystem services, agricultural productivity, weather patterns, human livelihoods and overall well‐being. Prompt and precise assessments of land degradation status are crucial for environmental governance and sustainable development. Remote sensing data can
Mohamed Mustafa Ali, Hamed Faroqi
wiley   +1 more source