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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As the climate changes, investors will need to understand which are the best-positioned market sectors and stocks as well as those to avoid. Hot Stocks provides a road map detailing how to invest in this new reality. --
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we've experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it's clear that we will need to adapt to the changes already underway in our environment. This book considers how individual economic choices in response to climate change will transform the larger economy.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Drowning of Money Island tells the story of a journalist's return to a hometown ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, where lack of recovery, sea level rise, and a state effort to buy out and demolish neighborhoods has fractured the community and foreshadowedcoastal America's sinking future"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st Edition.
Language
English
Description
"From a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why "green thinking" could cure many of the world's most serious problems-from global warming to pandemics Solving the world's biggest problems-from climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance-requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us. For carbon emissions...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone needs to understand how climate change will directly affect their lives and the lives of their family in the years to come. This is the first general audience book aimed at giving you and your family the knowledge you need to know to navigate your future"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Pick an environmental issue. Maybe air pollution, toxic waste, or deforestation. These all seem like solid choices, but none of these is actually an environmental problem--at least, not at its heart. Deep down they're economic problems. Nearly all the issues we classify as environmental stem from defects in the DNA of America's current market system. This is emphatically true of our greatest environmental threat: global warming. With a focus on climate...
30) Hot money
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hot Money outs the whole game, the whole charade, the whole crap shoot of the world's financial circulatory system and its profound exposure to climate change with all the humor and intelligence of a New Yorker cartoon. Rich with historical context, former NATO Supremem Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark (ret.) and his son take us on a journey of connecting farmers, homeowners, bankers, academics, and business professionals in a tale that explains...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments the world over to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed and, if left unexamined, will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all. For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: that globalization will continue to spread;...
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