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World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016 - How open are you to cyber attacks? - Focus
2016-01-22 17:37:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
The World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2016 underlines the threat of cyberattack as a growing menace facing major companies. Ben Cooper examines the report's findings on the dangers of cyberattacks and other principal risks facing companies over the next ten years identified in the report.
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World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016 - Climate change the biggest business worry - Focus
2016-01-22 17:36:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016 rates the failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation as the risk that could have the greatest impact on business over the next ten years, while also highlighting the increasing interconnectedness business risks. For drinks companies, Ben Cooper writes, it is the strong link between climate change and water scarcity that is among the most pressing concerns.
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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions won't slow global economic growth report
2015-09-26 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the world works out how to avoid catastrophic climate change, one of the biggest questions remaining is whether we can continue to grow economically without also increasing greenhouse gas emissions. New research released this week at Climate Week NYC offers more hope that the answer might be yes. Prepared for green thinktank Heinrich Böll by DIW Econ, a German institute for economic research, the study found that, as a whole, countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation...
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Economic Models Give Insights Into Global Sustainability Challenges
2015-02-27 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Combining global economics, geography, ecology and environmental sciences is essential to understanding how changes in trade and natural systems in one part of the world affect those in another, a review concludes.
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Global climate inaction mean economic turmoil for South Asia, warns bank
2014-08-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The first comprehensive study ever issued on the economic costs that uncontrolled climate change would inflict on South Asia predicts a staggering burden that would hit the region's poorest the hardest. "The impacts of climate change are likely to result in huge economic, social and environmental damage to South Asian countries, compromising their growth potential and poverty reduction efforts," said the study, published by the Asian Development Bank. The cuts in regional GDP are so deep that...