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Other things would drive that including psychology and how global risks are perceived.

A group of thought leaders representing business, academia and civil society sits down to discuss how global risks can be turned into a wide range of new opportunities.

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In an editorial late on Tuesday, the influential Global Times tabloid expressed alarm at how far the rhetoric on both sides had gone and how it had increased the risk of a «fatal misjudgement».

The purpose of the Global Opportunity Report is to demonstrate how the Opportunity Mindset can reveal the opportunities these risks also present and introduce ideas for how we can wisely use the pressure they exert to create more resilient societies.

Together, they have shown how 15 major global risks can be turned into 45 opportunities for economic, social and environmental prosperity.

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How central banks assess risks to price and financial stability will determine the pace at which they will withdraw monetary accommodation, one of the key risks to the global growth cycle.

We, at the Global Opportunity Network would like to thank all participants at our Opportunity Lab last week in New York City — it was a pleasure working with you and thanks for all the great input on how to address five global risks with global opportunGlobal Opportunity Network would like to thank all participants at our Opportunity Lab last week in New York City — it was a pleasure working with you and thanks for all the great input on how to address five global risks with global opportunglobal risks with global opportunglobal opportunities!

«With this report, the partners aim to demonstrate how global sustainability challenges and risks can be seen as opportunities.

In all, we have analysed how 45 opportunities can emerge from 15 leading global risks.

To build a diversified portfolio, an investor generally would select a mix of global stocks and bonds based on his or her individual goals, risk tolerance and investment timeline.2 The chart below highlights how those broad asset classes have moved in different directions over the past 20 years.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

Chris Laws, global head of product development, compliance and supply solutions for Dun & Bradstreet, explains how new technologies are providing ever deeper analysis to deliver reputational and financial risk mitigation

The Attractiveness Index — How to Make Canada the Destination for Renewable Energy Investment A shift in clean energy capital flow is forcing global markets to evolve and adapt — and those who don't risk getting left behind.

As the global economy picks up steam, how can Australian business make the most of the accelerating wave of digital disruption amid rising political and geo - strategic risks?

Cash Allocations: I talked about this chart in the video on the Global Risk Radar, specifically I talked about this alongside the chart which showed valuations as expensive for the major assets (property, stocks, and bonds), and how it reflects the trend where central banks have bullied investors out of cash and into other assets.

How should global investors assess country risk?

They address how to: (1) specify the risk factors driving returns in global financial markets; (2) estimate factor returns and volatilities; and, (3) construct an optimal portfolio of factors.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As the global economy picks up steam, how can Australian business make the most of the accelerating wave of digital disruption amid rising political and geo - strategic risks?

Norbert Schmitz from Global Risk Assessment Services will explain how food companies can develop sustainable and deforestation - free supply chains for their ingredients.

Take Ivory Coast.I find it difficult understanding why an academician or to be more specific, an accomplished economist of Dr Bawumia's calibre.Let me quote here a statement made by Madam Christie Lagarde the IMF director «Mediocre economic growth could become the new reality leaving millions stuck without jobs and increasing the risk to global financial stability» she said this after she has explicitly stated the global economic challenges and how certain structural reforms in Ghana including infrastructure investment as well as trade reforms were going to impact positively on Ghana's economy.

«I'm of the view that the most credible answer to the question «How does Britain deal more confidently with global risk?»

To compute how additional pollution from ships increases risk of disease for exposed populations, especially those living in coastal communities or along major shipping lanes and far inland in some nations like India, the team incorporated important underlying health information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma Network.

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

Mark Staley, a general manager at Global Analytics, Market Risk Management, CIBC, explains how an expertise in mathematics or physics can be morphed into a career in finance.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

To get a sense for how this probability, or risk of such a storm, will change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario in which the world's climate changes as a result of unmitigated growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

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To research his latest book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, he spent several years with some of the world's top climate modelers, as well as Cold War physicists, philosophers, politicians, and crackpot entrepreneurs, all of whom are involved with the development of new technologies that might someday be used to manipulate the earth's climate to reduce the risks associated with global warming.

In the last monthly comment, I used the starting point of the OECD area's leading indicators to describe how the global economy had moved into a new phase of the trade cycle (expansion), as well as how this phase has historically favored high - risk active classes.

At the 2015 Global Congress on Travel Risk Management, on October 19 & 20, 2015, your Enterprise Travel Risk team receives intensive training during a day - long immersive scenario on how to proactively prepare for and effectively respond to such events.

This all jibes with earlier posts here on what is perhaps the most unnerving, and under - appreciated, body of science related to problems like the greenhouse - gas buildup — the sociological work showing how poorly people deal with looming risks (from global heating to Social Security insolvency) and exploring ways to improve the situation.

This finding sparked a valuable discussion among scientists of how to consider, and communicate, drought risks related to human - driven global warming when truly monstrous dry spells — dwarfing anything in modern experience — are an underlying norm.

Interesting article, since the late 80's I have often wondered how to communicate to the average citizen the risks of global warming.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

A central dispute was over how scientists can best discuss risks and responses related to inherent, and dangerous, extremes of climate in a world increasingly fixated on how to limit global warming caused by human activity.

Overall, the panel's reports have never focused much on research examining how humans respond (or fail to respond) to certain kinds of risk, particularly «super wicked» problems such global warming, which is imbued with persistent uncertainty on key points (the pace of sea - level rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases), dispersed and delayed risks, and a variegated menu of possible responses.

Given humanity's focus on the near and now, the greatest challenge posed by global warming is figuring out how to spur meaningful changes in energy norms based on a risk with this time scale.

· Explore how to deal with the risks of climatic changes, including how to adapt to the growing and potentially severe impacts of global warming for water resources.

Big energy companies are under increasing pressure from investors to disclose how rising global temperatures and mitigating associated climate risks may impact them.

«Over 100 business leaders worldwide have backed the final recommendations of a global task force set up by the G20 to disclose how companies manage climate - related risk, in a move that could divert trillions of investments away from polluting fossil fuels.»

Creating global consensus for deciding whether or not to use and then, if yes, how to make it happen — including how to minimise termination risks — will be a massive undertaking.»

Science can not settle all arguments about how the world should respond to global warming, because the answer to that question involves values, varying perceptions of risk, and political ideology, in addition to what we know (and don't know) about the climate system.

Limiting carbon emissions is expensive - that's why there is a legitimate argument about how much human contribution to emissions matters and whether incurring those costs now is the best way to respond to the risks of global warming in the future.

See how the effects of global warming in the North Sea ripple up the ocean food chain — and find other hot spots where sea life is at risk on the Climate Hot Map.

See how sea - level rise from global warming puts New York City at risk — and find other hot spots threatened by rising seas on the Climate Hot Map.

See how global warming increases the risk of forest fires in western Siberia — and find other hot spots threatened by higher air temperature on the Climate Hot Map.