I observe that the sustainable finance landscape as it stands today is featured by an overabundance of heterogeneous concepts, definitions, industry and policy standards. argue such heterogeneity may hinder smooth development conceptual thinking underpinning originates specific risks harm credibility nascent market. These include green washing, rebranding financial flows without additionality, ...

The appropriateness of existing methodologies to assess the potential risks associated with engineered and adventitious products of nanotechnologies

Human-induced climate change, with such rapid and continuing global-scale warming, is historically unprecedented and signifies that human pressures on Earth’s life-supporting natural systems now exceed the planet’s bio-geo-capacity. The risks from climate change to health and survival in populations are diverse, as are the social and political ramifications. Although attributing observed health...

Some incidents in urban railway systems affect the function of the subway’s company adversely and they could disorder the services. These events may inflict irreparable damage to passengers, employees and equipment. By recognizing the hazards existing in this type of transportation system and evaluating and prioritizing risks, we can perform appropriate actions to reduce the probability and sev...

After more than a century since its birth, Quantum Theory still eludes our under1 standing. If asked to describe it, we have to resort to abstract and ad hoc principles about 2 complex Hilbert spaces. How is it possible that a fundamental physical theory cannot be de3 scribed using the ordinary language of Physics? Here we offer a contribution to the problem, 4 providing a short non-technical p...