Environmental challenges increasingly shape political discourses across Europe, yet their influence on actual environmental governance remains unclear. This paper examines the political economy mechanisms linking environmental change, party platforms, and the decentralisation of environmental...

Natural hazards are an increasing concern, placing disaster preparedness and mitigation at the forefront of policy agendas. In this context, Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) has allocated €3 billion for explicit disaster prevention, with a primary focus on hydrogeological risks...

The United States (US) and European Union (EU) are at risk of entering a full-blown trade war. Three months ago, on "Liberation Day", US President Donald Trump imposed high import tariffs on almost all countries, including the EU. He then suspended them at short notice to negotiate with over 90...

This article examines the relationship between the adoption of digital technologies and the corporate commitment to environmental protection, while also exploring whether this relationship is strengthened by public financial support. Using a sample of 1,616 Spanish manufacturing firms and...

The paper aims to analyze human development through its interactions with environ- mental protection, governance, and official development assistance (ODA) in develop- ing countries. This is done to allow the decision-makers of the latter to have an optimal approach to sustainable development...

The research project "Cost allocation and incentive mechanisms for environmental, climate protection and resource conservation along global supply chains" (Project number 3722 14 101 0) commissioned by the German Environment Agency, analyses (dis)incentives for and barriers to the implementation...

This document contains information, methodologies and guidelines for policymakers and those responsible for implementing public policies aimed at prioritizing investment in environmental remediation projects. It presents an analysis of the concepts of environmental mining legacies and...

The World Bank Group supports the Ministry of Economy of Armenia in developing a green taxonomy (GT) as a key step toward a sound system of identifying, selecting, and financing green and sustainable development projects and actions, and as an essential milestone toward establishing an...

This publication analyses the advantages and disadvantages of carbon credits compared to other financing instruments for protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems. Nine instruments are examined, including emission credits, biodiversity certificates, development cooperation, and blue bonds....

Environmental challenges increasingly shape political discourses across Europe, yet their influence on actual environmental governance remains unclear. This paper examines the political economy mechanisms linking environmental change, party platforms, and the decentralisation of environmental...

Natural hazards are an increasing concern, placing disaster preparedness and mitigation at the forefront of policy agendas. In this context, Italy's Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) has allocated €3 billion for explicit disaster prevention, with a primary focus on hydrogeological risks such...

The globally increasing production of charcoal, particularly in (sub-) tropical regions with a high risk of illegal deforestation, necessitates extensive protective measures. In Europe, these measures are implemented within the framework of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR;...

Projecting the effects of proposed policy reforms is challenging because no outcome data exist for regulations that governments have not yet implemented. We propose an ex ante deep learning framework that can project effects of proposed reforms by mapping outcomes observed under past regulations...

Literature supports the notion that green human resource management (HRM), an emerging and effective HRM strategy, leads to superior environmental performance. Yet, insufficient attention has been paid to whether green HRM can improve organisations' green innovation, and on the impact that...

The Vjosa River Basin, located in the heart of the Balkans, is one of Europe's last free-flowing wild rivers comprising a large number of pristine habitat types with a wealth of biodiversity. Widespread degradation of the forest ecosystem and unsustainable land use due to logging and livestock...

Green investment has emerged as a crucial tool for sustainable development, but its determinants across heterogeneous regional contexts remain inadequately understood. This study examines determinants of green investment across Chinese provinces, focusing on R&D intensity, pollution control...

This study examines the relationship between green finance and environmental sustainability in Nepal from 1990 to 2023. Constructing the index for financial development by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the relationship is explored using Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) followed...

The globally increasing production of charcoal, particularly in (sub-) tropical regions with a high risk of illegal deforestation, necessitates extensive protective measures. In Europe, these measures are implemented within the framework of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR;...

In dieser Festschrift vereinen sich in harmonischem Mehrklang der Disziplinen Menschen mit ihren Beiträgen aus unterschiedlichsten Fachgebieten und mit unterschiedlichsten Hintergründen. Die vorliegende Festschrift zeigt damit auch den Facettenreichtum der Interessen- und Aktivitätsgebiete...

Since their inception in 1987, debt-for-nature swaps (D4NS) have emerged as a popular policy tool to simultaneously address sovereign debt burdens and environmental challenges. Drawing on a newly constructed database of global D4NS transactions, this paper shows that Asian economies have played...

This paper explores the environmental consequences of illegal drug production, specifically focusing on the impact of coca prices and cultivation on tree cover density in Peru. Using satellite imagery and granular data on the economic value of coca cultivation, I show that fluctuations in coca...

Whether the reform of China's environmental protection tax will exert an incentive effect or crowding-out effect on enterprises' green innovation remains unanswered by existing research. Faced with more stringent environmental protection taxes, whether enterprises will adopt substantive or...

Mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows underpin climate resilience, coastal economies and biodiversity, but remain critically underfunded. Despite their scale and value, they attract less than 1% of international climate finance.

When consumers prefer to buy goods with high environmental quality and firms differ in their environmental qualities, firms have incentives to fight over environmental salience and thereby influence consumers' attention to the environmental dimension of the goods. A green firm prefers...

The pressure to keep up with others may shift attention from environmental protection as a collective good toward private positional concerns. We study whether income comparisons are associated with environmental concern using the Socio-Economic Panel for 2000-2020. Individual fixed-effects...