Sentences with phrase «more about climate risks»

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Investors are expecting more quantified financial information about climate risks and opportunities, in mainstream financial filings.

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

They are campaigning to get more information about climate change, development plans and environmental risks in their community.

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

The initiative encourages Americans to think of climate change as a risk management issue; the panel aims to clarify and contextualize the science so the public and decision - makers can be more adequately informed about those risks and possible ways to manage them.

A revision could require companies to disclose far more about climate change and other environmental risks than ever before.

Though the APS statement about climate change is more nuanced than the AAAS letter, stating — for example — «scientific challenges remain in our abilities to observe, interpret, and project climate change,» it in no way disputes the scientific consensus on climate change or the risks it poses.

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.

But given how popular the SimCity series has been, there's a decent chance that the new SimCity Societies game I just wrote about will engage more people with the realities of climate risks and responses than all the yelling about Bjorn Lomborg or Newt Gingrich.

white males are decidedly more «skeptical» about climate change risks only among «hierarch individualists.

Over the past seven years, I wish we had been more forthcoming with three messages: We should have conceded, prominently, that the news about climate change is unwelcome, that today's climate science is incomplete, and that every «solution» carries risk.

Here — in the Figure at the top — what we see are that white males are decidedly more «skeptical» about climate change risks only among «hierarch individualists.»

Yet, disclosure rules regarding environmental or sustainability issues may become more rigorous in the future as Peabody Energy, the world's largest private - sector coal company, agreed (PDF) in November to provide more information about its risks associated with climate change in future SEC filings.

«But as I commented at scienceprogress, the way I see the ledger, the religious Right gets a handful of anti-science points for views on evolution (and related rationalizations about the age of the earth, etc.), and for some dismissal of climate change theory, but the Left gets many more anti-science points for exaggerating the health and ecological risks of POPs; DDT; GMOs; plastics and plasticizers; pesticide residues; conventional agriculture; low - dose EM radiation; high - tension powerlines; climate change; population growth; resource depletion; chemical sweeteners; species extinction rates; biodiversity decline; and I'm sure the list could go on.

We are certain about this: the more greenhouse gases we put into the air, the more severe the impacts will be, and the greater the risk we run of triggering disruptive, even disastrous changes in climate.

It's their shared apprehension that opposing positions on climate change are, in effect, badges of membership in and loyalty to competing cultural groups; that is the cue or signal that motivates members of the public to process information about climate change risks in a manner that is more reliably geared to affirming the position that predominates in their group than to converging on the best available evidence.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

Another frequently mentioned option is for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of New York to invoke the state's powerful stock - fraud statute, the Martin Act, as the state has done in recent years to force other fossil fuel companies to disclose more about the financial risks they face from climate change.

This report is one of dozens of internal documents unearthed by journalist Jelmer Molmers of De Correspondent and posted this week on Climate Files that shed more light on what Shell knew decades ago about the risks of burning fossil fuels.

Find out more about the climate of the past and how climate change can present a number of risks and opportunities >>.

«Carbon Tracker is able to be more effective at informing investors about climate risk and influencing their actions than traditional investment banks,» he said.

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.

On Tuesday, Norway's $ 872 billion sovereign wealth fund said it would vote in favor of shareholder proposals at Exxon and Chevron Corp. that would require the companies to report more fully about the risks their businesses could face from tougher carbon policies and extreme climate impacts.

Lord Stern, author of the government - commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more «blunt» about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures.

Because of the enormous amount of research that has since been conducted into climate change — a sum estimated in the tens of billions of dollars — much more is now known about these risks, and much more needs to be known.

It can be most useful to think about climate change through a risk management lens — the more greenhouse gases that we emit, the greater the risks for dangerous impacts to occur.

Some more astute voices have been speculating about this potential since the turn of the century — and suggesting that with dynamic climate shifts there are even greater risks of extreme hydrological and temperature changes.

«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.

In an experiment designed like a game of three - way telephone in which subjects were asked to select and pass on Facebook messages about climate change, the authors found that a conventional framing of climate change in terms of environmental risks was more likely to be shared, compared to less conventional messages emphasizing the public health and economic benefits to action.

If you'd like to learn about this issue in more depth, please visit Maplecroft's website and download The Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2014: http://maplecroft.com/themes/cc/.

They looked at what climate policy makers could learn from adaptive management techniques, to create an approach to mitigation that more fully accounts for the set of risks that governments care about, is less dependent on a globally binding mandate, and which could, therefore, be a better way to preserve flexibility in climate mitigation.

Many environmentalists call geoengineering a false solution, ethicists often worry that it indicates a worrying hubris about human domination over nature, and some economists suggest that it would encourage decision makers to take on more climate risk.

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Addressing climate change should be more about risk management.

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.»

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.

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Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private sector coal company, has agreed to make more robust disclosures to its investors about the financial risks it faces from future government policies and regulations related to climate change and other environmental issues that could reduce demand for its product.

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

Others have talked about what this might look like — regional impacts, measurement quality, reduced funding to GCM modeling (consistent with their strength in testing subsystems rather than forecasting climate), and more empirical work and modeling of those systems that have a large impact on areas of risk.

Carbon Tracker welcomes the Task Force's recognition that meaningful investor engagement with boards and management on climate risks requires more informed discussion about how these risks may impact a business.

That paper, which I posted yesterday, presents data showing that «conservative Republicans» know just as much as «liberal Democrats» about climate science (a very modest amount) and more importantly are just as likely to be motivated to see scientific evidence of climate change as supporting the conclusion that we face huge risks.

But if one is interested in risks and in preparing to meet them, the more interesting question is what the deep historical record can tell us about the circumstances under which climates have changed rapidly in the past and the severity of the consequences.

Reading the Sierra Club report, I'm inclined to think the risk is less that policy makers will follow its recommendations and more that it will be viewed as evidence that those who care about climate change in rich countries are trying to stop poor countries from developing modern, high - energy lives.

Choices about the scale and timing of GHG mitigation involve balancing the economic costs of more rapid emission reductions now against the corresponding medium - term and long - term climate risks of delay

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».