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  05 December 2023 | Open Access

  The alignment of companies' sustainability behavior and emissions with global climate targets

  The emissions pathways of most publicly traded companies in high-emitting sectors are not aligned with the climate targets of the Paris Agreement. An extensive analysis of companies’ sustainability behaviour offers insights into why this is the case.

  • Simone Cenci
  • , Matteo Burato
  •  & Maurizio Zollo

• Article
  13 June 2023 | Open Access

  Quantitative evaluation of large corporate climate action initiatives shows mixed progress in their first half-decade

  More companies are setting climate targets, but detailed evaluations remain scarce, raising questions on their effectiveness. Here, authors assess the progress of 102 of the largest companies in the world by revenue for the period 2015–2019.

  • Ivan Ruiz Manuel
  •  & Kornelis Blok

• Article
  22 May 2023 | Open Access

  Decentralized federated learning through proxy model sharing

  Federated learning enables multi-institutional collaborations on decentralized data with improved privacy protection. Here, authors propose a new scheme for decentralized federated learning with much less communication overhead and stronger privacy.

  • Shivam Kalra
  • , Junfeng Wen
  •  & H. R. Tizhoosh

• Article
  02 June 2022 | Open Access

  A federated graph neural network framework for privacy-preserving personalization

  Mainstream personalization methods rely on centralized Graph Neural Network learning on global graphs, which have considerable privacy risks due to the privacy-sensitive nature of user data. Here, the authors present a federated GNN framework for both effective and privacy-preserving personalization.

  • Chuhan Wu
  • , Fangzhao Wu
  •  & Xing Xie

• Article
  18 March 2022 | Open Access

  Assessing the climate change exposure of foreign direct investment

  This study finds that foreign firms tend to shy away from countries with higher physical climate risks than do local firms. Chinese FDI is significantly more exposed to most physical climate risks than non-Chinese FDI across countries.

  • Xia Li
  •  & Kevin P. Gallagher

• Article
  09 December 2021 | Open Access

  Financial stability in response to climate change in a northern temperate economy

  Climate change will impact the global economy. Here, the authors propose a framework to evaluate its effect on economies across multiple regional and temporal scales, and project decreased financial stability in a northern temperate economy.

  • Kayla Stan
  • , Graham A. Watt
  •  & Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

• Article
  01 August 2019 | Open Access

  Global labor flow network reveals the hierarchical organization and dynamics of geo-industrial clusters

  There is a lack of systematic approaches to identify and analyze the hierarchical structure of geo-industrial clusters at the global scale. Here the authors use LinkedIn's employment history data to construct a global labor flow network from which they find that the resulting geo-industrial clusters exhibit a stronger association between the influx of educated-workers and financial performance compared to existing aggregation units.

  • Jaehyuk Park
  • , Ian B. Wood
  •  & Yong-Yeol Ahn

• Editorial | 12 April 2010

  Open for business

  Nature Publishing Group launches its second multidisciplinary journal, 140 years after the first issue of Nature.