Sentences with phrase «climate risk»

It aims to outline how the negative impact of climate risks on agricultural production is transmitted to the most vulnerable communities and households.

To those of us focused on climate risks and solutions, and science - based issues more generally, sure.

We know enough about climate risk to assert that the level of risk is enough to be a serious issue, more so as time goes by.

The economic case for acting now on climate change is also supported by the increased focus from the finance sector towards reducing climate risk on a global scale.

The insurance industry views climate risk disclosure as integral to their business.

On the other hand, there are plenty of large corporations and institutional investors which address climate risk in official policy statements and through management systems.

But we can dramatically reduce these water and climate risks by choosing options such as renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Such valued attributes, to the extent they are vulnerable to climate change, should be the central focus of climate risk assessment.

It explores global reporting practices on fossil fuel reserves and the nature of any information gaps, as well as considering what steps are necessary to integrate emerging and future climate risks into disclosure.

Putting a price on carbon helps to incorporate climate risks into the cost of doing business.

What we do about pricing and dealing with climate risk — and how politicians argue about it in federal election cycles — may be very much in play.

• How are energy asset owners / managers identifying and assessing climate risks, and how do these assessments inform investment and operational decisions?

They do so by training farmers how to cope with erratic weather patterns; they also try to mitigate climate risks through paying for artificial hail suppression services, for instance.

The forces driving emissions of that long - lived greenhouse gas show few signs of shifting for the sake of limiting long - term climate risk any time soon.

Are there additional climate risks associated with natural gas?

That increasing temperature increases climate risks is a matter of firm and general agreement.

Such research investments would accelerate this development and could help avoid some of the greatest climate risks that the lack of timely emissions reduction may make inevitable.

Half of the reviewed cases assess current climate risks based on current and / or historical data.

Green bonds are therefore an opportunity for investors to integrate climate risk mitigation in a core fixed income allocation without changing too much the overall risk / return profile of their portfolio.

She spoke on the science and urgency of climate change, and the challenge of communicating climate risk to the public at large.

«They will need to provide strong examples of how good policy can drive economic growth and climate risk reduction together,» the report says.

For obvious reasons evaluating climate risk is an essential part of the insurance industry.

What will it take for major corporations to take climate risks seriously, making sustainability reporting a routine part of financial filings?

The county maintains a website devoted to the region's rising climate risks.

Understanding systemic climate risks: implications for the financial sector and lessons for central banks and financial regulators 2.

Investors can make a difference through green standards, green bonds and better climate risk assessments.

The expected or achieved CO2 reduction and / or climate risk mitigation of the project.

But though their probability is difficult to assess, state shifts are a potentially large contributor to overall climate risk.

Therefore, they should require additional disclosure on factors such as the carbon dioxide potential of fossil fuel reserves, to provide an indicator whether climate risk is increasing or decreasing.

These reserves are also the basis to understanding the potential climate risks of burning these fuels.

But businesses must also start now to factor climate risks into their investment decisions.

This sounds simple enough: we simply accept that we're going to face higher climate risks and try to adapt.

Common contrarian end goals are opposing climate risk management and stopping effective climate action.

Similar adaptation strategies can often be implemented for different climate risks.

But his group, including experts on Asian and African climate risks, is dissolved.

It also places climate risks much more firmly than before among a host of other problems faced by society, especially by the poor.

So, now it's time to hear from you on these, or other, efforts to use art to convey climate risk and prompt a meaningful societal response.

This research combines social and climate modeling to reveal how interactions between perceived climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions influence projected climate change.

These benefits include falling costs, and multiple social and environmental benefits which are increasingly front and centre of global policy concerns: less climate risk, less price volatility and cleaner air.

The case for some measures, such as carbon capture and storage, will have to be made on the strength of climate risk arguments.