2019年9月9日 · This hyper interconnectivity and pace of change demands that we reconceptualize risk. The architecture that connects crises causes their impacts to ripple out in unpredictable ways. This was widely seen in the 2008-2009 financial crisis, which had significant impact on food prices that ultimately drove land grabs in Africa, Asia and South America.

2024年1月16日 · The looming climate crisis will exacerbate global health inequities, leaving the most vulnerable most at risk. Urgent global action must be taken to reduce emissions and safeguard human health from the multi-pronged negative impacts of climate change globally. Read the report. For more information on the Annual Meeting 2024, visit www.weforum ...

2023年2月1日 · The latest Ecological Threat Report (ETR) from independent non-profit think tank the Institute of Economics & Peace (IEP) seeks to present two particularly large and complex problems – identifying countries most at risk of catastrophic outcomes as a result of ecological threats, and predicting which ones are most likely to suffer from ...

2023年2月6日 · This weekly round-up brings you key climate crisis stories from the past seven days. Top climate crisis and environment news: Scientists say 40% of animals in the US are at risk of extinction; China warns of more extreme weather in 2023; Under half of natural disasters in 2022 were insured.

2016年2月15日 · Examples of success in terms of growth rates are numerous in the modern history of capitalism. The massive industrial development of England in the 18th and 19th centuries, the United States as early capitalist developers prior to the two devastating World Wars, the remarkable growth of rates western Europe (i.e. Germany, France, Italy,) in the post …

2021年7月22日 · Early steps to resolve climate crisis should include identifying local and regional causes of nature loss, developing a deeper understanding of expected local climate impacts, and assessing the trade-offs of different resource management practices to …

2024年2月12日 · AI, satellite images and ecology expertise are also being used to map the impact of deforestation on the climate crisis. Space Intelligence , a company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, says it is working in more than 30 countries and has mapped more than 1 million hectares of land from space using satellite data.

2021年6月18日 · The Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, adopted by the UN in 2018, clearly states that one of the factors causing large-scale movements of people is “the adverse impacts of climate change and environmental degradation,” which includes natural disasters, desertification, land degradation, drought and rising sea levels.

2024年5月31日 · As the climate crisis deepens, it is reasonable to expect the associated global mental health crisis may be compounded severely. This would further undermine humanity’s collective ability to develop climate resilience, innovation and adaptation — precisely the resources we need to survive and thrive in the face of the disasters which are ...

2023年2月14日 · The climate crisis and young people’s education are often viewed in isolation, but are inextricably linked, the report says. A warming world increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, which impacts the education of 40 million children annually, mostly in low and lower middle-income countries .