Not exact matches
«Once again,
extreme weather came to New York and once again New Yorkers came together to help our neighbors in their time of need,» Cuomo said in a press release, (
issued smack in the middle of the regional
economic development council awards ceremony).
However, DiPerna cites new momentum among mainstream investors to take climate change
issues into account, with new and strong interest by investors in reckoning with the fact that both the risks and costs of
extreme weather events will continue to rise, with significant implications for
economic stability.
He became concerned with such
issues as: the evidence of a causal relationship between common feeding practices and serious health problems; the perceived disconnect between the nutritional requirements of felis silvestris catus and all other species of cats; an industry with a vested interest in grain as the basis for its products; a veterinary education system with little nutritional teaching, subsidized by commercial pet food industries; a questionable government concept approval and oversight process; the
economic inertia of maintaining the status quo; and the rejection of science - based belief systems on the
extremes of both sides of the
issue.
Many decision makers, particularly in the United States and Canada, have the financial, human and institutional capacity to invest in resilience, yet a trend of rising losses from
extremes has been evident across the continent (Figure 26 - 2), largely due to socio -
economic factors, including a growing population, equity
issues and increased property value in areas of high exposure.
The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact
issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through
economic sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and
extreme events on the health of populations.