Funding Policy News
May 21, 2024
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May 13, 2024 Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans for coal phase-out around the world and discovered ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries increasingly prone to climate ...
Mar. 7, 2024 Researchers propose that governments apply a new method for calculating the benefits that arise from conserving biodiversity and nature for future ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Young people have major concerns about climate change, which is having a significant impact on their lives and could have broader consequences decades into the ...
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Mar. 15, 2024 In order to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C, it is essential to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. This would mean not exploiting most of the ...
Jan. 10, 2024 An international group of researchers finds that conserving about half of global land area could maintain nearly all of nature's contributions to ...
Nov. 16, 2023 A new paper pinpoints obstacles and suggests strategies for getting more prescribed fire on the ground in the wildfire-prone U.S. ...
Nov. 13, 2023 Banding together to sell fishing rights could generate economic benefits for African countries, which receive far less from access to their fisheries on the global market than other countries do from ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Without rapid carbon dioxide emission reductions, the world has a 50% chance of locking in 1.5°C of warming before ...
Oct. 25, 2023 In a test of their new analysis tool, researchers show where 'moving up' or 'moving over' may make the most sense for those affected by the 2022 Pakistan flood, and what costs it would ...
Oct. 24, 2023 While governments may take the lead in planning and financing climate change adaptation measures, such as incentivizing green infrastructure, individuals currently are most often the ones ...
Oct. 16, 2023 New research considers how the financial industry can identify, manage and, if necessary, remove these ...
Oct. 17, 2023 The world may have crossed a 'tipping point' that will inevitably make solar power our main source of energy, new research ...
Oct. 12, 2023 'Flagship' individual animals like Cecil the lion or Freya the walrus can boost conservation, new research ...
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Mar. 27, 2024 Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study suggests that this can ...
Feb. 8, 2024 The speed at which England's oldest adults became frailer accelerated during the UK Government's era of austerity politics, according to a new ...
Feb. 8, 2024 The lifting of a two-decade drought in federal funding for firearm injury prevention research was strongly associated with an increase in both clinical trials and publications on gun violence, ...
Dec. 5, 2023 For the first time, researchers have mapped the financial sector's influence on the emergence of infectious diseases. They find that a relatively small number of powerful financial institutions, ...
Oct. 24, 2023 Recent research has found that backers of crowdfunding projects participate, in part, because they enjoy a sense of indirect success and the feeling that they are contributing to something bigger ...
Sep. 14, 2023 When people feel that their resources are scarce -- that they don't have enough money or time to meet their needs -- they often make decisions that favor short-term gains over long-term ...
Sep. 5, 2023 When we determine which communities are more likely to get their water from contaminated supplies, median household income is not the best measure. That's according to a recent study that found ...
Aug. 9, 2023 Dam constructions have flooded over 1.13 million acres of tribal land in the U.S., contributing to the historic and ongoing struggle against land dispossession for Indigenous peoples in the United ...
Aug. 1, 2023 The public funding of science is responsible for many of the biomedical and other scientific breakthroughs on which our lives depend. However, the process through which funding decisions are made, ...
July 31, 2023 Major government and private funding is being invested in planting trees as a powerful tool to fight climate change. But new research shows a troubling bottleneck that could threaten these efforts: ...
July 24, 2023 As artificial intelligence expands across more professions, robot preachers and AI programs offer new means of sharing religious beliefs, but they may undermine credibility and reduce donations for ...
July 20, 2023 A new study finds that only a small number of U.S. policies consider ultra-processed foods, lagging behind countries such as Belgium, Brazil, and ...
July 10, 2023 Indonesia, home to the largest tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia and over 17,500 islands, is a country packed with biodiversity and endangered species. However, scientists studying the ...
July 10, 2023 Financial payments made by land developers to offset their impacts on threatened species may fall short, according to new ...
June 29, 2023 In light of climate change and the impending transition to clean energy, many long-standing programs to address energy insecurity need to be refreshed. A new paper provides growing documentation of ...
June 22, 2023 One common rationale against climate action is that the resulting fossil fuel investment losses could impact people's retirement or long-term savings. However, researchers report that the loss ...
June 21, 2023 Rewilding, organic farming and the 'nature friendly farming' measures included in some government conservation policies risk worsening the global biodiversity crisis by reducing how much ...
Mar. 28, 2023 Can monetary policy such as the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates affect the environment? According to a new study, it can. Results suggest that the impact of monetary policy on pollution ...
Mar. 21, 2023 People might be more positive to the removal of fuel subsidies if told where the money would be spent instead. This has been shown in a study which investigated attitudes towards removing fossil fuel ...
Mar. 8, 2023 Because the distance remaining to completing a goal plays a role in people's psychological state, their tendency to follow a persuasive message depends heavily on whether the message matches ...
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- Lifting of Federal Funding Ban Tied to Increase in Gun Violence Research
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- Conservation in Indonesia Is at Risk, a Team of Researchers Who Study the Region Argues
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- When Money's Tight, Parents Talk Less to Kids; Could This Explain the Word Gap?
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