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Eric Herberholz on 2008-08-15

Compelling enough for me to create a blog about it: http://epiphanysuit.blogspot.com/
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ye zhaohua on 2008-11-23

ubantu和ARM有什么关系？？

BBC - Newsnight: Susan Watts: Insuring against climate change

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the world's biggest insurer has told me that his industry should be spending 10 times more than that each year to help avert the worst effects of climate change.
I went to Munich to ask the head of the largest insurance group in the world, Munich Re, how he sees that pattern changing. Nikolaus von Bomhard, chief executive officer, agreed that Hurricane Katrina, and the tens of billions of dollars paid out by his industry, was a wake-up call for everyone, not just for politicians.
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- Just a few per cent of the insurance industry's financial resources could set the world on a low-carbon path, he said.
- something from the 1-to-2% point range is possible, and that in our case is already something like $2 billion."
- if the entire insurance industry did that, they have investments under management of several trillions... then a lot of money is coming into that pool - a lot of money..."
  
  One or two percent of several trillion dollars? That's tens of billions... every year.
- "If we do not do something now to contain the development of these risks they will - we will - end up with an uninsurable event because the capacity will not suffice to insure any more. So it's not about protecting our business rather to develop jointly with all those constituencies and make sure it stays within let's say quantities that can be insured."
- the company employs a mini academic department of weather and climate experts, who first spotted an increase in frequency of catastrophic weather events in the 1970s, long before climate change became a household phrase.

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Finding The Money: The Wizardry of Financing Climate Responses

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a form of financing called special drawing rights (SDRs)
SDRs are in a sense a virtual pool of capital that can be exchanged for the currency of any IMF member state. They have been around since 1969, when they were created by the IMF to add liquidity to international currency exchanges. Most recently they were used to inject $283 billion into the world economy following financial crisis.
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- Another overlooked pool of capital is the equity controlled by the world's insurance and reinsurance companies. Anxious to limit their potential liabilities, insurers and reinsurers have long been some of the most eloquent quantifiers of the need to respond to climate change.

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Končno strokovno o Družinskem zakoniku

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The New Tools

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BIM—shorthand for a process that can map in 3-D all aspects of design and construction, from how a building looks to how much lighting it will need—is transforming archi-tecture into a spectacularly predictable science, an obvious asset in our environmentally enlightened era.
Collaborative design and digital technology both have crucial implications for sustainability. Combine the three and you have an entirely new business model.

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BBC - Newsnight: Susan Watts: Insuring against climate change

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