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UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy finds that American credibility on climate change is lagging behind other regions, especially Europe Much of the world's efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change hinge on the success of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement. A new Nature Climate Change study is the first to provide scientific evidence assessing how effective governments will be at implementing their commitments to the agreement that will reduce CO2 emissions causing climate change.

The UK Government's current proposal to fortify one type of flour with folic acid is inadequate as it suggests a low dose that would fail to prevent hundreds of cases of severe birth defects each year, according to a new paper by UCL's Professor Sir Nicholas Wald.

EXPERTS ADVISORY The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, dealing a blow to the Biden administration's efforts to address climate change.

Untraceable by design, the DIY guns are just as lethal as a traditional firearm and often made of the same materials.

Some barriers to women running for office, such as forms of illiteracy, work burdens within the household and discriminatory attitudes towards women are well known, but new research from the Centre fo

Research shows that weekly markets in Catalonia are a space for creativity and diversity Maria Lindmäe, a postdoctoral researcher with the CaSEs Research Group at UPF, is the author of a scientific article that analyses the soundscape of the markets of Vic and Trinitat Vella.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Michael Odijie (UCL History) and Poorva Karkare of ECDPM, take a careful and critical look at how Nigeria's closed-borders policies designed to fight goods smuggling is limiting trade with their neighbours and their own industrialisation.

Developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are moving quickly. This leads to positive things, such as faster detection of cancer, for example.

With a supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court, conservative justices are expected to push the nation to a hard right turn in the weeks ahead on such divisive issues as abortion, climate change, gun rights and the separation of church and state.

Compared with corporate bond issuers, municipal bond issuers typically take two to three times longer - 140 to 160 days - to complete their audits between fiscal year-end and the date of the Independent Auditor's Report signature, according to data research from Merritt Research Services.

A study in which the professor of the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science and Administration Juan Rodríguez Teruel participates shows that there is no equitable geographical distribution of the plurality of the Spanish State in the appointment of ministers.

A new analysis found that achieving a -fair- state income tax system is more complicated than the debate between a flat tax rate and a graduated rate would suggest. The Policy Spotlight, titled The Earth isn-t Flat, and Neither is Illinois- or any other state-s- Income Tax , discusses the many factors that determine state personal income tax liabilities and demonstrates that graduated tax rates are not the only way to achieve a progressive tax system.

An applied research initiative based at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy aims to improve public services and governance in lower-income countries through more effective local taxation.

Paralysed by Ukraine, the Russian president will need his security services to keep him in power, says Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies).

New research paper asks what more countries with already-high tobacco tax rates could do to reduce smoking.