international grants to cities of the Global South. Additional funding through the generation of local revenues or market …While cities are important emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), they are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate … change; at the same time they constitute innovation hubs for climate action. For cities to fulfil their potential for global …

Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in Japan in 1543 are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth …, the America's, Asia and Europe as mercantile cultures met in a globalizing world. From these encounters, power … modern merchant cultures is thus paramount to comprehending the sinews of globalization before 1800. Merchants worldwide …