Price stabilization mechanisms (PSMs), one of a set of key policy elements aiming at supporting increasing and stable carbon prices, may affect the performance of emissions trading systems (ETS) in terms of green innovation. By using the case of China’s regional carbon market pilots and data of listed firms, the research team found that pilots adopting both price-based and quantity-based PSMs significantly induced green innovation activities in covered firms, while a single type does not guarantee the effect. PSMs help to do so by lifting carbon prices and reducing firms’ perceived uncertainties. The above effects would be enhanced in firms with lower asset reversibility, lower ability of cost passthrough, higher ability of innovation, and state-owned enterprises.

Analysis of 4.37 million patient records in England finds resources asymmetrically impacted by winter cold and summer heat, with about 64% linked to common cold days while very hot days drive sharp same-day demand surges

The Universitat Jaume I in Castelló will develop six research and innovation projects in areas such as environmental sustainability and risk detection to improve disaster response through funding obtained in the competitive call for proposals from the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) (IVACE+e innovación) 2025, which seeks to promote innovation, R&D transfer and collaboration between universities, technology centres and companies.

The UJI has obtained funding in three lines of the call financed by the European Union within the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Programme for the Valencian Community 2021-2027 – IVACE+ for an amount of nearly one million euros, with which it will promote six projects with direct technological and social impact to respond to real challenges.

The various initiatives led by UJI research staff will provide innovative solutions in the field of environmental sustainability through advanced technologies to improve water quality and management, strengthen the circular carbon economy, promote cleaner and safer production systems aligned with green technology, and strengthen the innovation ecosystem through materials with a lower environmental impact. They also seek to anticipate responses to situations of risk due to natural disasters resulting from climate change.

Healthy, sustainable school meals could cut undernourishment, reduce diet-related deaths and significantly lower environmental impacts, according to a new modelling study led by a UCL (University College London) researcher.

As generative AI systems become more deeply woven into the fabric of modern life – drafting text, generating images, summarizing news – debates over who should profit from the technology are intensifying. A new paper in the Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property argues that the current copyright system is ill-equipped to handle a world in which machines learn from, and compete with, human creativity at unprecedented scale.