Environmental factors already influence investment decisions to some degree, as corporations and indeed individuals have to take projections of things such as sea level rise and water availability into account.
Earlier this month, the City of Boston recently released a report showing potential flood regions in the city that have expanded as a result of sea level rise over the next few decades due to climate change.
By feeding into his model both some recent science on the increased risks of dramatic climate change, and the possibility of such catastrophes as a rise in sea level big enough to flood London and New York, he calculates that the range of possible outcomes lies somewhere between 5% and 20% of global output over the next century or two.
Housing experts have summed up 2012 as the year of the bottom, with national-level home prices finally beginning to rise as sales activity bounded and both inventory levels and mortgage rates plunged.
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That woefully low level ought to rise as the Great Recession recedes.
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With coastal development continuing at a rapid pace, society is becoming increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise and variability as Hurricane Katrina demonstrated in New Orleans in 2005.
Even though default rates on commercial mortgage-backed securities are less than 1.0%--compared with higher than 20.0% for high-risk home loans--that level is expected to rise as the global economic slowdown makes business conditions increasingly difficult for hotels, retailers and other companies carrying office building mortgages.
When they rise to the same level as the experienced producers, the tariffs will be no longer needed.
At some level of output their marginal costs rise as they begin paying overtime or putting their less efficient facilities into production.
Overleaf, we follow the fortunes of Homo sapiens sapiens around the Black and Mediterranean Seas through 30 000 years of a tumultuous history marked by sporadic earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, as well as more insidious hazards tied to a changing climate, such as flooding from glacier melt, gradual sea-level rise or prolonged drought.
We must understand and adapt to a changing climate, including more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, drought and floods, and continued sea level rise.
The level of regulation will increase, and taxes will inevitably rise as governments struggle to contain their bulging budget deficits.
Joseph Lavorgna, a Deutsche Bank economist, has estimated that unemployment could rise to as much as 8.25% from its current level of 6.5% if 2.5 million to 3 million workers tied to the U.S. auto industry are displaced.
As serious as those charges are, not all such conduct in all instances may rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
Rosen said at the state and local government level, at least, budgets have begun to stabilize as revenue growth has started to rise.
It is often argued that neither the level of household debt nor the lofty level of house prices need be a problem, so long as interest rates do not rise significantly.
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The CBO says that federal debt as a percentage of gross domestic product would rise to 90% by 2022, up from its 2012 level of 73%.
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Yet since inflation is by definition a rise in the general price level, not one set of prices, it's never as orderly as proponents of inflationary policies like to claim.
This means that we can expect more than the one-meter sea level rise projected for 2100, a fact that the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet, as well as strong indications that the western part of the Antarctic ice sheet is also melting, strongly support.
Overall, there was a 19% rise in requests for re-marks for this year's A-level, GCSE and AS-level exams.
Behind all the glitches is a trend, the rise of algorithmic and high-frequency trading to a level of prominence that would have been unimaginable as recently as the 1990s.
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To the contrary, if the rental activity does not rise to the level of a trade or business, the fact that it is no longer treated as passive courtesy of the real estate professional rules will not change the fact that the rental income is considered net investment income.
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