Climate Change Risk Articles & Analysis
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These countries suffer from climate change with temperatures reaching levels that increase heat-related health risks.? Climate change will lead to an increase in these risks including more regular and extreme heatwaves, and an increase in mean temperatures. ...
The year 2020 was supposed to be a milestone for climate action. It’s the five-year landmark of the 2015 Paris climate agreement and the first test in countries’ willingness to strengthen their targets for climate action. Governments were expected to put forward more ambitious short-term plans for 2030, and long-term targets for 2050, to decarbonise economies and keep global ...
Sarah Breeden, Carney’s Bank of England colleague, recently reiterated that warning. “Climate change poses significant risks to the economy and to the financial system, and while these risks may seem abstract and far away, they are in fact very real, fast approaching, and in need of action today,” she said. ...
In addition to protecting simple openings, we have installed complete barrier surrounds around plant items or to hatches below flood level allowing continued access in time of flood, and have linked some barriers to a building management system to identify when barriers are in place. Increased Risks Require Solutions Now DEFRA’s recently published Climate ...
As President Obama emphasized in his speech at Georgetown University in June 2013, climate change is happening. It is here, it is now, and as Obama warned, “Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of ...
If successful, these actions will not only help drive China's economic development, they will address another mounting threat: climate change. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms the risks of climate change and humans' central role in ...
FTSE launched new indices that rate the carbon strategies based on their exposure to climate change-related risks, reports Envido. FTSE Group this week launched new indices designed to help investors track firms" ability to manage climate change risks. ...
Recently the practice of border adjustment in international trade has attracted much interest in the context of climate change. The risk of carbon leakage, the competitive disadvantage of industries in countries introducing a cap on emissions and the desire to induce large greenhouse gases emitting countries to join international ...
Clean energy investment reached records in 2010, as asset managers are increasingly considering climate change risks in their ...