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Climate-related economic losses across Europe have evolved from isolated environmental shocks to persistent, structurally embedded fiscal risks, posing a direct challenge to the long-term fiscal sustainability of European states. This study presents...

Islands are often considered excellent socio-ecological laboratories for testing the rapidity of global change since they experience the climate effects of sea-level rise faster than other areas. The Azores are a Portuguese volcanic archipelago locat...

Climate-related risks are now perceived as financially material, affecting banks, investors, firms, regulators, and central banks. This article provides a systematic literature review of the relationship between climate-related risks and financial de...

A comprehensive risk assessment of different types of natural disasters at the county level can promote quantitative disaster risk assessment and can provide a scientific basis for the formulation of disaster prevention measures. Focusing on climate-...

Despite the well-documented acceleration of climate-related economic losses in Europe, existing research has largely treated these damages as isolated stochastic events rather than as structurally embedded fiscal risks. This gap leaves EU fiscal gove...

Climate change and variability pose significant threats to agricultural production, particularly in regions heavily dependent on rainfed agriculture like Senegal. The problem addressed in this study revolves around the impact of climate-related risks...

Climate change is reshaping risk worldwide, with many extreme events becoming more frequent and severe. Insurance plays a critical role in societal resilience by providing financial protection against climate-related losses. Climate indices translate...

The risk of socio-economic vulnerability depends not only on the risk of climate hazards occurring but also on society’s vulnerability to such hazards, coping capacity, and adaptive capacity. The World Risk Index methodology was used to assess...

Physical climate hazards—floods, storms, heatwaves, and wildfires—are increasingly disrupting banking operations and generating growing litigation and legal-risk exposures, yet operational risk remains one of the least studied channels th...

This paper presents the development of a high-resolution composite index to monitor and quantify climate-related risks across Italy. The country’s complex climatic variability, extensive coastline, and low insurance penetration highlight the ur...

Increasing attention has been directed toward the consistency between sustainability disclosures and financial statements, giving rise to the concept of financial connectivity. A prevailing assumption in this debate is that climate-related risks and...

This study examines whether climate risk disclosure (CRD) matters to financial analysts in China. Using textual analysis to measure CRD, we find that CRD is negatively related to analyst forecast error and dispersion, supporting the information hypot...

Bangladesh is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries on the globe. The country is frequently affected by numerous climatic events including floods, droughts, cyclones, etc., which damages the farm household’s livelihood and socio-economic condi...

This paper investigates whether water-related climate stress predicts tail movements in food system assets and whether these spillovers vary across market regimes and investment horizons. Using daily data from January 2012 to January 2026, we examine...

Although climate change is increasingly recognized as a material risk for firms, the extent to which climate-related risks are operationally integrated into enterprise risk management (ERM) processes remains unclear. This article presents a structure...

Climate change poses several challenges for the economic system. The financial and insurance industries are called on to play a pivotal role, in particular in coming up with innovative solutions such as sustainable products. According to the EU&rsquo...

The mitigation of urban heat islands (UHIs) is crucial for promoting the sustainable development of urban areas. Geographic information systems (GISs) together with satellite-derived data are powerful tools for investigating the spatiotemporal distri...

One of the main takeaways of the recently concluded Conference of the Parties (COP) 30 is the need for all humanity to unite against climate change. Effective climate-related risk and carbon footprint disclosure could serve as a systematic approach t...

Amid accelerating climate change, climate-related hazards—such as floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and sea-level rise—increasingly drive land transformations and pose growing risks to housing markets by affecting property valuations, insura...

This paper provides a critical narrative review of the literature on climate-related credit-risk and its implications for the banking sector. Banks’ exposure to physical and transition climate risks can significantly affect credit quality, lend...

This study examines how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks intersect with climate-related disasters and social inequality. While ESG practices are promoted to enhance corporate accountability and resilience, their implications for...

This article reviews emerging regulatory and supervisory practices with respect to prudential risks from climate change in the banking sector. It evaluates the theoretical considerations with respect to climate-related financial risks in the banking...

Direct and indirect impacts of climate change are alarming in the coastal areas of the world, including the Mediterranean coasts. Extreme events (such as marine storms, medicanes, etc.) are likely to increase the coastal risks in the region (e.g., er...

There are various climate risks that are caused or influenced by climate change. They are known to have a wide range of physical, economic, environmental and social impacts. Apart from damages to the physical environment, many climate risks (climate...

Despite growing emphasis on financial firms’ engagement in environmental project financing (EPF), its impact on insolvency risk remains underexplored. Drawing on signaling theory, this study investigates how EPF influences financial institution...

As climate change intensifies and urbanization continues, Fuzhou faces growing public health risks from the urban heat island effect. This study develops a Heat Risk Index (HRI) by integrating the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification with the Cric...

Extreme heat, a leading cause of weather-related morbidity and mortality, particularly affects vulnerable populations such as older people, increasing their risk of stroke. There is a gap between scientific knowledge and policy implementation, partic...

Climate change is one of the most pressing threats facing humanity in our times. Understanding public perceptions of climate change and its risks is the key to any mitigation and adaptation initiatives. Previous works discussed the influence of exper...

This study explores how the System Dynamics modeling approach can help deal with the problem of conventional insurance mechanisms by studying the feedback loops governing complex systems connected to the disaster insurance mechanism. Instead of addre...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2014, suggests that an important increase in frequency and magnitude of hazardous processes related to climate change is to be expected at the global scale. Consequently, it is necessary to improv...

Given projections of future climate-related disasters, understanding the conditions that facilitate disaster preparedness is critical to achieving sustainable development. Here, we studied communities within the Wet Tropics bioregion, Australia to ex...

Climate change has become an increasingly intense global phenomenon in recent years. A great number of researchers support the idea that climate change is strongly connected to some environmental hazards, and specifically, those correlated to extreme...

Around the world, human populations and their supporting infrastructures are concentrated in coastal areas. With rising sea levels, these settlements and urban infrastructures are at risk of service interruptions, lasting damage and frequent climate-...

Smart-city programmes in emerging economies often produce climate-risk registers, dashboards, and narrative reports that do not lead to real changes in technical specifications or budget decisions. This study examines how the internal audit function...

The Mediterranean islands’ blue economy and, more specifically, the tourism sector, largely regulate Europe’s gross product. Climate change threatens the ecological, societal, and economic sustainability of the islands in many ways, with increasing w...

With the increasing intensity, frequency and duration of heat waves, adaptation measures are becoming increasingly relevant and are moving up the agenda of decision-makers. In particular, urban areas require effective solutions due to the urban heat...

Latin America and Africa face complex public health challenges shaped by social, environmental, and epidemiological factors. This study conducts a comparative analysis of publicly available national health strategies and national policy documents fro...

Background: During 2020 and 2021, over 50.2 million individuals were forced to leave their homes to escape the impacts of climate-related disasters, unable to practice social isolation or self-quarantine. A considerable proportion of them reside in d...

Recent cases of climate disasters such as the European floods in 2021 and Korea’s longest rainy season in 2020 strongly imply the importance of adaptation to climate change. In this study, we performed a numerical prediction on how much climate...

Background: In the rapidly shifting Canadian climate, an ageing population, and increased migration, a greater understanding of how local climate and air pollution hazards impact older adults and immigrant populations will be necessary for mitigating...

The web-based tool ARClim provides an atlas of climate change-related risk assessments spanning over 50 environmental and productive sectors in Chile. This paper illustrates the implementation of ARClim on two coastal sectors, operational downtime in...

Recent assessments have found that a warming climate, with associated increases in extreme heat events, could profoundly affect human health. This paper describes a new modeling and analysis framework, built around the Benefits Mapping and Analysis P...

Sustainable development results from the harmonious integration of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Building on available risk analysis capacities, this study employs risk perception as a diagnostic tool to evaluate t...

Background: Children are disproportionately affected by climate change while evidence regarding their adaptive behavior and relevant influencing factors is limited. Objectives: We attempted to investigate health-related adaptive behavior towards clim...

Climate change poses a range of current and future health risks that health professionals need to understand, track, and manage. However, conventional monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as practiced in the health sector, including the use of indicat...

Climate change has been linked to the escalating frequency, duration, and intensity of heat waves in the Mediterranean region, intensifying health concerns for the general populace. Urban environments face elevated health risks due to concentrated po...

Stream networks are the transportation channels of pollutants that can significantly influence water environment risk (WER). However, the influences of stream network structure and connectivity (SC) on WER at the national scale and its regional varia...

Forestry workers play a crucial role in implementing forest management programs, but their outdoor work exposes them to rising temperatures caused by global climate change, which poses potential health risks related to heat. This study specifically i...

This study examines the intersection of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure (operationalized through sustainability reporting), corporate financial performance, and the behavioral dynamics of herding in capital structure decisions...

Cities are facing increased heat-related health risks (HHRs) due to the combined effects of global warming and rapid urbanization. However, few studies have focused on HHR assessment based on fine-scale information. Moreover, most studies only analyz...