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Climate resilience needed to dodge $442b VIC loss by 2100

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Rising sea levels and storm surges could cause $442 billion in economic loss in Victoria by 2100, caused by the impacts of sea level rise and storm surge. A recent study, led by the University of Melbourne, the Victorian Marine and Coastal Council and ...

HSBC, partners to identify blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... areas such as increasing carbon sequestration, creating new fish habitats and improve resilience to flooding and rising sea levels. The particular area of NSW was selected for the project because of a combination of factors, including receptive partners ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... future damanges of climate change, including the cost of damages whose value is unknown, like the damages of rising sea levels, and those that are hard to quantify, such as the loss of biodiversity. It is also challenging because in order to be used ...

State of the climate report confirms need for climate-aware investing: Future Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... weather and length of the fire season, declining rainfall in the southeast and southwest of the continent, and rising sea levels. The report also cited continued increase in global annual mean carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentrations reaching 410 ppm in ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... notably precipitation and temperature extremes, droughts, weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons and rising sea levels as having major cost implications. "This research illuminates fragility in the global supply chain mode," said Paul Simpson ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... from glaciers and aquifers, and fish protein Decommissioning of spent nuclear power plants Protecting against rising sea levels Replacing and strengthening infrastructure to meet more extreme weather events, and Maintaining armed forces to defend borders ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... like carbon emissions might impact on those. Physical impacts include things such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels and increased disaster risks, and the impacts those have on investments. Law and policy development pertains to how governments ...
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