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The Myth of Decarbonized Oil: Technological Fixes, Climate Delay, and the Politics of Low‐Carbon Fossil Fuels

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The idea of “decarbonized oil” has become increasingly visible in climate, energy, and corporate transition debates as oil and gas actors seek to reconcile continued fossil fuel production with net‐zero commitments. This article offers a critical narrative review of the concept, asking what political work the idea of decarbonized oil performs ...
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Responsible Mining in Africa: Problematising the Environmental and Public Health Concerns of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Gold Mining in Ghana

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been emerging media reports on the impact of cyanide and mercury use in artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) operations on community health, especially among pregnant and non‐pregnant women, ASGM miners, and children in rural Africa.
Francis Arthur‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aftermath of the Forest Carbon Credit Crisis as Experienced by Restoration and Conservation Organisations

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2023, The Guardian reported on several scientific studies denouncing the role of certain forest carbon credits in mitigating climate change. Subsequently, credit prices on the voluntary carbon market (VCM) plummeted—providing a quantitative indication of its impact.
Benjamin S. Thompson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Digital Finance Drive Green Growth and Sustainable Development? Evidence From 118 Countries Across Development Status and Crisis Contexts

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether and under what conditions digital finance advances green growth (GG) and broader sustainable development (SD) objectives in a financially volatile, climate‐constrained, and developmentally unequal world. Using annual data for 118 developed and developing countries from 2004 to 2022, we construct four Principal ...
Sehar Saleem   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Global Forestation Network: Orchestrating the Financing and Development of Tree Planting Programs

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the ‘global forestation network’ (GFN)—an arrangement of actors that shape afforestation, reforestation, and forest restoration activities worldwide. These activities typically involve planting trees, and are motivated by supporting biodiversity, local communities, and climate change mitigation. At the GFN's core sit the ‘
Benjamin S. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Land Tenure

1993
Abstract Ever since the eighteenth century, economists have argued that the distribution of land shapes the pattern of resource allocation, distribution, and growth in an agricultural economy. We have since accumulated a great deal of evidence which strongly suggests that the distribution of assets determines how the gains of growth are ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Land and Land Tenure

2017
In both traditional and modernizing agriculture, area and quality of land farmed is the principal determinant of income potential. The essence of modernization is a large sustained increase in crop yields. That potential is influenced by the characteristics of land in traditional agriculture.
openaire   +1 more source

Land Tenure

Michigan Law Review, 1956
John C. Payne   +3 more
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