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Corrigendum to: “Artificial intelligence for environmental security: national, international, human and ecological perspectives” [Curr Opin Environ Sustain 61 (2023) 101250] 更正:"人工智能促进环境安全:国家、国际、人类和生态视角》[Curr Opin Environ Sustain 61 (2023) 101250] 更正
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101426
Marie Francisco
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From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture 从性别差距到改变性别的气候智能型农业
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101415
Sophia Huyer , Ana Maria Loboguerrero , Nitya Chanana , Olga Spellman
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The climate-sovereign debt doom loop: what does the literature suggest? 气候-主权债务厄运循环:文献有何启示?
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101414
Stavros A Zenios
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Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors 保证不可知性:对财务审计师可持续性保证不断发展的思考
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101413
Theresia Harrer, Othmar M Lehner
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Insurance and climate change 保险与气候变化
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101412
Aparna Gupta , Sreekanth Venkataraman
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Climate-related prudential regulation: emerging perspectives and policy implications 与气候相关的审慎监管:新观点和政策影响
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101410
Diego Hidalgo-Oñate , Iluminada Fuertes-Fuertes , J. David Cabedo
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Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science 绿色清洗与可持续金融:一种以科学哲学为基础的方法
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101397
Thomas Lagoarde-Ségot
{"title":"Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science","authors":"Thomas Lagoarde-Ségot","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper argues that certain erroneous premises upon which the mainstream finance paradigm is based are a structural cause of greenwashing. By scrutinizing the metatheoretical hypotheses of this paradigm through a critical realist lens, we aim to show that it rests upon on tacit representations that impose a distorted view of financial ‘knowledge’, financial systems, the Earth System, and society. This ontological bias leads to fallacious research questions, biased methodologies, and has even generated ill-advised policies that are conducive to the financialization of nature. We then put forth that critical realism could offer realistic metatheoretical foundations for the development of a new ecological finance paradigm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101397"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343523001446/pdfft?md5=47be01d8b7c28f535c737e7138cbe30c&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343523001446-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139406091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems 拓宽可持续人工智能的视角:人工智能系统的可持续性标准和指标
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101411
Friederike Rohde , Josephin Wagner , Andreas Meyer , Philipp Reinhard , Marcus Voss , Ulrich Petschow , Anne Mollen
{"title":"Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems","authors":"Friederike Rohde ,&nbsp;Josephin Wagner ,&nbsp;Andreas Meyer ,&nbsp;Philipp Reinhard ,&nbsp;Marcus Voss ,&nbsp;Ulrich Petschow ,&nbsp;Anne Mollen","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101411","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The increased use of Artificial intelligence systems (AI systems) is associated with multifaceted social, environmental, and economic consequences. These include nontransparent decision-making processes, discrimination, increasing inequalities, rising energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in AI model development and application, and an increasing concentration of economic power. By considering the multidimensionality of sustainability, this paper takes steps toward substantiating the call for an overarching perspective on ‘sustainable AI.’ It presents the Sustainability Criteria and Indicators for Artificial Intelligence Systems (SCAIS) Framework, an assessment framework that contains a set of 19 sustainability criteria for sustainable AI and 67 indicators that are based on the results of a critical literature review, and expert workshops. Its interdisciplinary approach contributes a unique holistic perspective to facilitate and structure the discourse on sustainable AI. Further, it provides a concrete assessment framework that lays the foundation for developing standards and tools to support the conscious development and application of AI systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101411"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343523001586/pdfft?md5=ac20063128e8f85c3429ef43d55beba3&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343523001586-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139398832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Environmental, social, and governance factor and financial returns: what is the relationship? Investigating environmental, social, and governance factor models 环境、社会和治理因素与财务回报:关系如何?研究环境、社会和治理因素模型
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101398
Karoline Bax , Eleonora Broccardo , Sandra Paterlini
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The need for a climate-resilient development-aligned framing of innovative climate finance 创新性气候融资需要与气候抗御力发展相一致的框架
IF 7.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101400
Jessica Omukuti
{"title":"The need for a climate-resilient development-aligned framing of innovative climate finance","authors":"Jessica Omukuti","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The increasing recognition of the importance of climate-resilient development (CRD) for developing countries is accompanied by a further recognition of the need for financial resources to meet the need for adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development in these countries. Innovative finance sources and mechanisms are therefore recommended as a solution for scaling up climate finance to meet CRD needs in developing countries. This review article examines the alignment between innovative climate finance and CRD. It argues that the operationalisation of innovative climate finance generates misalignments with CRD principles particularly relating to how the finance is sourced, governed and allocated. This fails to align with CRD principles of ensuring transformations and transitions, equity and justice and agency and empowerment. The review article proposes an expanded and CRD-aligned understanding of innovative climate finance that improves the governance of existing climate finance flows.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101400"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343523001471/pdfft?md5=2a3c96849a8c1ad7c324276fefd713d6&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343523001471-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139108059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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