According to the report, communities around the globe are not organized to develop an overview of their "total climate risk, " a situation that includes a combination of three key factors: climate risks today, the value of future economic development and the effects of on-going climate change.

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This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.

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The States of Jersey will start a legal challenge over the UK's ending of Low Value Consignment Relief, according to the economic development minister.

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Whenever I have taught classes on corporate social responsibility ( CSR) in U.S. business schools, students seem invariably to focus on two key rationales for the development and propagation of CSR programs: their economic value in terms of tax incentives and their usefulness as marketing tools.

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Meanwhile, the uncertainty engendered by delayed enforcement and the curtailment of injunctive relief further erodes the value of patents and complicates, rather than eases, the process of economic development.

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