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Are green bonds priced lower than their conventional peers?

The green bond market's rapid growth has alerted issuers and investors to this sustainable area of investment. This study ascertains whether green bonds are priced lower than conventional bonds-whether a negative green bond premium exists in both Chinese a ...

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Examining African contributions to global health: Reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Jürg Utzinger, Julia Tischler

This article unites different disciplinary debates on ‘southern innovation’, ‘theory from the South’, and ‘decolonisation of knowledge’ in order to discuss existing understandings around the role of Africa in the production of health-related knowledge, pub ...

2022

Crowdsourcing Public Engagement for Urban Planning in the Global South: Methods, Challenges and Suggestions for Future Research

Jérôme Chenal

Crowdsourcing could potentially have great benefits for the development of sustainable cities in the Global South (GS), where a growing population and rapid urbanization represent serious challenges for the years to come. However, to fulfill this potential ...

2022

A mechanistic assessment of urban heat island intensities and drivers across climates

Gabriele Manoli, Ziyan Zhang

The urban heat island effect (UHI) has been widely observed globally, causing climate, health, and energy impacts in cities. The UHI intensities have been found to largely depend on background climate and the properties of the urban fabric. Yet, a complete ...

2022

Aerobiology over the Southern Ocean – implications for bacterial colonization of Antarctica

Julia Schmale

Parts of the Antarctic are experiencing dramatic ecosystem change due to rapid and record warming, which may weaken biogeographic boundaries and dispersal barriers, increasing the risks of biological invasions. In this study, we collected air samples from ...

2022

What about the ethics of applying artificial intelligence to bodies?

Images convey, through representations of bodies, in the press, cinema and art, one or more gender imaginaries while acting as vectors in the process of globalization. The recurrence or similarity of some of these images reveals the diffusion or persistenc ...

2021

Robotically-Fabricated Nexorades from Whole Timber

Yves Weinand, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Petras Vestartas

This paper introduces the conceptual design of sustainable timber structures using raw wood. It pre-sents a workflow for systematically generating Nexorades using a tiling method for multi-valence quad subdivided surfaces. The system is designed based on a ...

2021

The symbiotic relationship between educational robotics and computer science in formal education

Francesco Mondada, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Educational Robotics (ER) has the potential to provide significant benefits to edu-cation, provided an increase in outreach by transitioning from the extra-curricular initiatives in which ER has thrived to formal education. As Compute ...

2021

Les grands projets urbains entre global et local : une étude de cas comparative de Casablanca et de Genève à travers les logiques de marché et les résistances locales.

Kamil Hajji

Globalization implies profound changes in territories that involve the emergence of major urban renewal projects. It has the effect of increasing competition between metropolises. In order to make a place for themselves in this increasingly competitive glo ...

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Global Climate Change Mitigation: Strategic Incentives

Sigit Pria Perdana

Central to global agreement on carbon emissions are strategic interactions amongst regions over abatement policy and the benefits to be shared. These are re-examined in this paper, in which benefits from mitigation stem from a meta-analysis that links carb ...

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