Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has become a routine part of working life but over-reliance on the technology may erode managers’ ability to build moral insights, contextual understanding and know-how to do get a job done, according to a new study from the University of Bath.

NUS Medicine identifies key factors behind the programme’s successful scale-up, offering blueprint for scaling similar healthcare innovations

A study conducted at the University of São Paulo combined digital archaeology and data science to map the financial flows of the Roman Republic. The results suggest that the consolidation of Roman rule depended not only on military conquest but also on the economic integration of the territories under Roman control.

Because greenhouse gases affect the global climate regardless of where they are emitted, countries benefit from other nations' efforts to cut emissions while retaining incentives to underinvest themselves. In a Policy Article, Catherine Wolfram and colleagues argue that countries could make climate policy more effective by forming a coalition that would adopt carbon pricing for four major industrial sectors – iron and steel, aluminum, cement, and fertilizers – which together produce about 20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. To prevent companies from shifting production to countries with weaker climate policies, coalition members would also impose carbon charges on imports from nonmembers, the authors note. Here, Wolfram et al. investigate the value and potential of such coalitions. Using detailed data on individual industrial plants and global trade patterns, the authors compared a uniform carbon price with a graduated system that sets lower prices for lower-income countries. They found that an initial coalition could reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions by about 1.5%, while having relatively small effects on industrial production, limiting carbon leakage, and generating nearly $200 billion in annual public revenue. According to the authors, the approach is designed to address a central weakness of international climate policy: countries differ greatly in their economic capacity and willingness to impose carbon costs. A tiered system, combined with technology sharing, climate finance, and capacity building, could therefore allow lower-income countries to participate while gradually strengthening their climate policies. “A coalition that marries carbon pricing and trade policies offers a practical path at a fractious time and offers a pathway to overcome the international climate-policy coordination problem. It aligns incentives, builds on what countries are already doing, and replaces a race to the bottom with a race to the cleanest,” Wolfram et al. write.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded the coveted Starting Grant to researchers at Goethe University: Political scientist Dr. Johannes Petry will use the funding to explore how geopolitical transformation is affecting the global financial system. Dr. Seda Koyuncu, currently at the University of Cologne, will join Goethe University to investigate the aging process in cells and its connection to the development of neurodegenerative diseases.

Employees who champion climate action inside large professional services firms may find their efforts help their careers, but only when that activism aligns with business priorities, according to new research from the University of Bath and Leuphana University of Lüneburg.