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If Lebanon manages to weather the current crisis with its pluralistic system, cultural vibrancy, and creativity intact, its prospects of achieving political maturity are promising.
Could the transatlantic relationship weather the storm?
During a recent visit – the first by a foreign delegation since 2006 – the cold and snowy weather intensified this feeling, creating the sense of being suspended in time and space.
Systems at RiskGENEVA – Failure to adapt to climate change, persistent extreme weather, and major systemic financial failure are just three of 50 major risks monitored every year in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report.
This reflects a wider shift in thinking about the climate, with growing acceptance that we are now locked in to some degree of global temperature change and need to adapt locally – for example, by strengthening our critical infrastructure systems in order to boost their resilience to extreme weather events.
Moreover, grain suppliers’ exposure to extreme weather may compromise their ability to sustain supplies, with knock-on effects for import-dependent countries.
“Teleconnections” refer to weather events that are related to one another over large geographic distances.
For example, tropical rainforests play a crucial function in maintaining stable weather and rainfall, acting as a “pump” that helps moisture travel between different regions.
Deforestation can thus have a destabilizing effect on weather patterns, amplifying the frequency and severity of extreme events such as floods and droughts.
In Brazil, for example, deforestation in Amazonia has slowed significantly over the last five years, but Brazil has already lost more than 11 million hectares of rainforest; its exposure to extreme weather has also steadily risen, with floods causing $4.7 billion in losses in 2011 alone.
Companies, investors, governments, and communities confront a series of critical barriers to increasing the food availability that the world needs: Local populations’ insecure land ownership; receding water tables, owing to unsustainable extraction rates; inefficient use of pollution-causing inputs like fertilizers and pesticides; the loss of vital ecosystems, affecting the resilience of food production; and certain areas’ inability to cope with extreme weather.
They know all too well that a bank-dominated financial system cannot weather a new and chaotic crisis.
With foreign direct investment still flowing in, Brazil’s lower external vulnerability leaves the country in a much better position than ever before to weather the global storm – at least for now.
This year, Russia’s budget deficit is expected to be just 2% of GDP, rising to 3.5% in 2016 – a remarkably strong performance given that the country has had to weather a trade shock and international financial sanctions.
Whereas some German companies persuaded workers to accept wage cuts to help weather the financial crisis, wages across the southern periphery have been marching steadily upwards, even as productivity has remained stagnant.
This does not mean that protectionism is the way forward, only that taking account of specific issues that affect international farm trade – weather, price volatility, or health risks – may be necessary from time to time.
Extreme weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons are likely to increase.
And, depending on weather and the nuclear discharge, the radioactive consequences may not remain localized.
A meteorologist might detect a coming storm by plugging data from myriad sources – atmospheric sensors, weather balloons, radar, and satellites – into complex computer models.
But that doesn’t mean that the sight of gathering clouds in the sky is not also a legitimate sign that one might need an umbrella – even if the weather forecast promises sunshine.
Deng temporarily withdrew, letting the central planners around Party elder Chen Yun slow down marketization and weather the PRC’s international isolation in Tiananmen’s wake.
Initially, it looked like Obasanjo would weather the storm and serve out his last term without making concessions to his opponents.
Yes, You Can Do Something About the WeatherCAMBRIDGE: Blaming the weather is one of mankind’s oldest excuses, but for a large part of humanity it is more serious than we realize.
Because mankind is actually changing global weather patterns, the problems brought by adverse weather conditions in the future could actually multiply.
What’s worse is that the rich countries may be an important cause of the increasing weather damage being suffered by the poorest countries in the world.
In addition to the usual woes of financial upheaval, every one was reeling from severe weather disturbances of the past two years.
It is probably the case that the two weather disasters were linked.
Weather models are too imprecise at this point to prove these linkages with certainty (weathermen and economists share a reputation for imperfect forecasts!), but a growing body of science suggests two basic facts.
They pose a serious health threat – one that is often overlooked when addressing extreme weather.
But scientists have long predicted that such increases would boost not only average temperatures, but also weather variability – and especially the occurrence of extreme events such as Hurricane Harvey.
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