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Impacts of climate change for Real Estate sector in India
Green buildings are gaining momentum around the world, given their financial benefits and smaller environmental and resource use footprint.
Energy insecurity, water scarcity, and climate change pose growing risks for the real estate sector India, yet the connections between these trends and financial impacts are [...]
Continue Reading →CLIMATE SPECTATOR: Losing billions to Asia
Australia’s lack of engagement with the green economy is costing us valuable opportunities in Asia, where business is powering ahead and carbon pricing regimes are in the making. 15 Oct 2010 10:11 AM
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Corporate response: Competitive response and risk management
Corporations are faced with meeting economic, environmental and social goals. There are two key ways in which corporations will respond within the economics of climate change:
· Competitive response and developing the opportunity set – mainly focuses on mitigation. Climate change becomes a focus of corporate attention [...]
Continue Reading →One of the ramifications of climate change which is frequently overlooked during discussion of the topic, but which has great relevance for businesses – especially those setting up infrastructure of any value in the developing world – is the impact of increased climatic volatility and the consequences thereof on the insurance industry. The cost of [...]
Continue Reading →When humans cut down trees or burn fossil fuels, they release extra carbon into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect. Mass deforestation around the world at an unprecedented rate is making the problem worse year by year.
Unfortunately, due to this climate change the earth is getting warmer as temperatures at the Earth’s surface [...]
Continue Reading →Discourse on the effects of climate change is required on a local as well as national level; however this alone cannot prove effective in ensuring environmental sustainability. This global issue requires initiatives from all sectors, especially business organizations that are the highest emitter of green house gases in the environment. Even though climate [...]
Continue Reading →At the end of this decade, scientists discover that giant solar flares have caused the temperature of Earth’s core to increase at an incredible rate. As the fragile balance of the planet’s structure is tipped by this unprecedented event, cracks begin to appear in the Earth’s crust, creating earthquakes of increasing ferocity. Despairing governments hatch [...]
Continue Reading →Today, the unwise use of the natural environment due to ignorance, poverty, overpopulation and greed amongst others has led to the degradation of the world, especially African environment. This degradation occur as Africans attempt to adjust their selfish endless wants and desires for food, shelter, recreation, infrastructural facilities, and have led to soil erosion and [...]
Continue Reading →The question most often asked by organizations trying to figure out carbon emissions reporting is related to The Climate Registry. Explained here are further details about the registry and why your organization should care about it.
The Climate Registry was published in draft form as early as May, 2007. It documents [...]
Continue Reading →‘Climate Code Red’ by Australians David Spratt and Philip Sutton addresses one of the major problems facing global civilization. It is a well researched document that leaves little doubt that climate change is underway. It calls for a state of emergency to tackle this problem. It notes possible technology to ease the situation. It notes [...]
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