Sentences with phrase «concerns about climate risk»

«The burden is now on ExxonMobil to respond swiftly and demonstrate that it takes shareholder concerns about climate risk seriously.»

Not exact matches

While regional differences reveal a mix of threats that concern CEOs, they share a common increasing worry about broader societal developments — geopolitical uncertainty, terrorism, and climate change — rather than direct business risks such as changing consumer behaviour or new market entrants.

In their development of this initiative, the three founders recruited additional members to forge the Project's Risk Committee, a group of dedicated individuals concerned about the economic future of America under the threat of global climate change.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

Overall, farmers were much less concerned about climate change risks — like fewer winter chill hours for trees, more heat waves and increased flooding.

During a time of increased concern about income inequality and climate change risk, natural disaster exposure risk could become another cause of rising quality of life inequality between the rich and the poor.

We concern ourselves with the average return / risk profile that has historically been associated with a given Market Climate, not with a specific «call» on about market direction in this particular instance.

We ask you and your organization to demonstrate its real concern about risks from climate damage by calling for the development and deployment of advanced nuclear energy.

Permit me to challenge two things; your simplistic description of the risk perception psychology that explains why the public doesn't seem to care about such a huge threat, and more profoundly, the naive belief that public concern about climate change can make much difference.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

Paul Fisher, a Dot Earth reader from New Jersey who recently expressed cogent concerns here about dealing with the risks in a complex engineered system — nuclear power plants — has offered similar observations about a complex biogeophysical system in a comment on my post on Arctic climate change, past and future.

As for cooling, the risk of an AMOC slowdown is increased by high emission rates, and that leads to a substantial cooling of European climate with, maybe, sea - ice or icebergs reaching Scotland, so if that is a genuine concern to you, think about that.

There are also significant concerns about the reliability of the forest retrapping the carbon, since climate change is expected to increase the risks of forest fires and insect infestations, said Sterman.

Despite the climate alarmists» misplaced concerns about the alleged risk of catastrophic human - caused climate change, the Earth has long had very effective natural systems to control excessively high temperatures.

What energy companies must do immediately is convey their scientific beliefs and real concerns about climate change risks to Congress and the general public, many of whom do not know what to believe.

These days, Abbott is more careful with his language but his appointments to cabinet and his policy positions say much about the extent of his concern for the risks of human caused climate change.

We are gravely concerned about the climate, financial and reputational risks associated with pursuing a speculative fossil fuel source that will likely become uneconomical as the world rapidly shifts towards clean energy sources.

In response to growing calls from investors and mounting concerns about so - called carbon bubble risk, the TCFD earlier this year recommended that listed firms publicly report on how climate change and the low carbon transition could affect their business.

«One major concern about wildfires becoming more frequent in permafrost areas is the potential to put the vast amounts of carbon stored there at increased risk of being emitted and further amplify warming,» said Todd Sanford, a climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by e-mail.

The Philippines, ranked second-most at risk from climate change in a recent United Nations report, reports the greatest concern about the personal toll of climate change among the Asian nations surveyed.

2) to ensure that we develop in a manner that does not undermine the essential functioning of the Earth system, in recent years most commonly reflected in concerns about accumulating carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, but certainly not limited to that factor alone; 3) to ensure that our societies are adequately equipped to withstand the risks and dangers that come from all the vagaries of climate, whatever may be their cause.

But Mann argues that the paper adds to growing concerns about the «uncertainty» in climate change science being more bad than good for humanity: «We should be taking into account worst - case scenarios when we attempt to gauge the risks posed by climate change.»

The World Economic Forum's new Global Risks Report is out and the results are clear: Business leaders are increasingly concerned about climate change's effect on their bottom lines.

Was the case, though, that «geoengineering» group was more concerned & not less about climate change risks

Over half of [Americans] now are concerned about [the risks of climate change], so that's great.

As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging.

«We are concerned about the material risks around climate change and we want to ensure that the companies which we invest in are well - positioned to transition to a 2 degree C world.»

In this light, one may try to dismiss this concern about «climate risks» as nothing more than a bunch of hot air, since statements about «climate risks» are necessarily forward looking statements, and under the National Instrument forward looking statements must have «a reasonable basis».