The use of biodegradable fishing gear is increasingly seen as a way to mitigate the negative impacts associated with abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), often referred to as “ghost gear”. However, a major concern with such an environmentally friendly technique is its potential to reduce catch efficiency due to its degradable characteristics, which may diminish competitiveness.

Southeast Asia has approximately 106 GW of active coal-fired generating capacity, behind only China, India, and the United States. The region has another 30 GW in the pipeline. If the Paris Agreement is fulfilled, there is a risk that these assets will become stranded. However, the extent of this risk remains largely unquantified. This study is the first to assess how uncertainties in renewable power development and carbon pricing affect the risk of coal-fired power plants becoming stranded assets across Southeast Asia, using a Monte Carlo-based analysis.

The annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Conference of Parties (COP) has long served as a keystone of global climate diplomacy. However, concerns are growing that its current format may be increasingly resource- and carbon-intensive, and could limit the meaningful participation of low-income groups. This Perspective proposes a hybrid reform to the COP cycle: biennial in-person summits alternating with virtual thematic sessions in intervening years.

This study uses split-sample discrete choice experiments to investigate public preferences within and between countries for proposed deep-sea management policies within and beyond national jurisdictions. The surveys were carried out in Norway and Scotland. A comparison of willingness-to-pay within each country (e.g., Mingulay/Lofoten-Vesterålen vs.

This study investigates pro-social and pro-environmental preferences through a survey experiment that examines behavioral shifts from single-use medical masks to reusable fabric masks among healthy individuals. Drawing on goal-framing theory, we evaluate the impact of the WHO’s recommendation alongside two additional informational interventions encouraging the use of fabric masks over medical-grade alternatives. Using an add-on experimental design, participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups, with baseline responses serving as a reference group.

While numerous majority-controlled governments globally have enacted hostile policies targeting minority groups, the long-term consequences of these policies remain insufficiently explored. By exploiting policy changes directed at the Chinese ethnic minority in South Vietnam between 1956 and 1963, this paper investigates the long-lasting effects of in utero exposure to hostile policies on multigenerational outcomes and social mobility.