A central issue at the UN Climate Change Conference, set to start on November 11, will be the negotiations on new payments from industrialized nations to poorer countries. However, the question of whether and how these payments will be financed remains highly controversial. The study by an international team of researchers, with participation by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has now revealed: The windfall profits alone taken in by oil and gas companies due to the 2022 energy crisis would have been sufficient to cover the existing commitments of the industrialized nations for nearly five years. The researchers therefore recommend collecting taxes on these so-called windfall profits from fossil fuels.

A new EU joint research project led by the University of Göttingen will explore how migration, demographic change and current crises are affecting social cohesion and democratic structures in Europe. A key objective is to find out how resilient democratic structures can strengthen local communities in times of profound demographic change. The project “Identities - Migration - Democracy (We-ID)” has been awarded funding of around three million euros over three years by the European Union.

A University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher will examine the role of cumulative psychosocial stress – as well as race, ethnicity and gender – among U.S. military personnel to gauge their impact on cardiovascular health and healthcare utilization.