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as nations across the regions will face profound economic changes because of global shifts to renewables. ... to develop cases over a longer timeframe, the economic case for most major decisions become logical and viable.

Estimates of the economic value society derives from the living environment are of an order of magnitude similar to global GDP itself. ... Competition for better solutions has been the major driving force behind economic and indeed social development.

economic system. It has no value indecision-making processes. Because it isnot within the system, it is generally not. ... Suchactions make economic sense in the currentsystem and actors are responding rationallysince they have a responsibility to

For the last chapter of this section we turn to a vivid crisis of the present – the economic turmoil within the European Union and beyond. ... advantage. Only with the participation of ‘the economic mainstream’, he points out, can we achieve

In the late 1980s, growing recognition of the loss of tropical rainforests led to the creation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which delivered the closest solution: to provide an economic

World Economic Forum, McKinsey,PwC and others release surveys andreports related to natural capital. ... Capitalism and GDP may need tobe redefined before more representativenational socio-economic-environmentalindicators can be developed.

The Economics of Fish Redistribution. Fisheries yield is projected to increase by 30–70% in high latitudes, but to fall by 40–60% in the tropics and Antarctica, based on 2C

O-I cite economic concerns as a major driver for efficiency and decarbonisation. ... It’s healthy to reduce our energy bill, so there’s an economic business driver to it.”.

Economic versus insured catastrophe losses, 1970–2015. Figure 1: Source: Swiss Re Economic Research & Consulting, 2015. ... The insurance industry, with its broad range of stakeholders and its involvement in so many spheres of economic activity, is

This document is the second in a series that will synthesize the most pertinent findings of AR5 for specific economic and business sectors. ... The scenarios are developed using assumptions concerning economic growth, choices of technology and land-use.