...What is climate change? The Earth's climate has changed over the last century. Increases in average temperatures have been seen around the globe and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed in the last 50 years is due to human activities. While climate change is a global issue, it will affect us all. Climate change has the potential to adversely affect our environment, our communities and our economy unless we take action now to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for the impacts. Climate change will alter global and local climates. In Victoria, this means a warmer and drier future, with an increasing likelihood of more extreme events such as heatwaves, bushfires and storm surges. Climate change is the greatest threat facing our planet today. A warming planet alters weather patterns, water supplies, seasonal growth for plants and a sustainable way of life for us and the world’s wildlife. Climate change has already started, but it’s not too late to take action. There’s still time for us all to be part of the solution. A continuous flow of energy from the sun heats the Earth. Naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases – this includes carbon dioxide (CO2) - , trap this heat like a blanket, keeping the Earth at an average of 15 degrees Celsius – warm enough to sustain life. The overuse of fossil fuels is increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, trapping more and more heat and warming the Earth. As a result, we’re...
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...What is the difference between weather and climate? WEATHER -is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term variation in minutes to weeks. People generally think of weather as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. We talk about changes in weather in terms of the near future: "How hot is it right now?" "What will it be like today?" and "Will we get a snowstorm this week?" * Weather includes sunshine, rain, cloud cover, winds, hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, flooding, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, steady rains from a cold front or warm front, excessive heat, heat waves and more. * The study of weather is called as Meteorology. * Weather is for a current period. * It prevails over a short area. * It has only limited predictability * It depends primarily on density (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another. CLIMATE-is the weather of a place averaged over a period of time, often 30 years. Climate information includes the statistical weather information that tells us about the normal weather, as well as the range of weather extremes for a location. * Climate may include precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, and wind velocity, phenomena such as fog, frost, and hail storms over a long period of time. * The study of climate is called as Climatology. * Climate is the area's average weather over a certain amount of years. * It prevails...
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...Assignment on- “What are the interactions between Climate Change & Multinational Enterprise?” [pic] [pic] Prepared For Md. Mamoon Al Bashir Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Prepared By Group Members: Ziniya Tabassum Anwar (2010-2-10-031) Ahsan M Rahik (2010-2-10-099) Najnin Akhter (2010-2-10-079) Anower Kabir Duke (2008-3-10-030) Farjana Akter Parul (2010-2-10-100) Course Code: ITB 301 Course Title: International Business Section-5 Submission Date 24/07/2013 [pic] EAST WEST UNIVERSITY Letter of Transmittal 24 July, 2013 Md. Mamoon Al Bashir Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Subject: Submission of Assignment on “What are the interaction between Climate Change and Multinational Enterprise?” Dear Sir, It is a great pleasure and privilege to present the assignment titled “What are the interaction between Climate Change and Multinational Enterprise” which was assigned to us as a partial requirement for the completion of this course ITB 301 (International Business). Throughout the study we have tried with the best of our capacity to accommodate as much information and relevant issues as possible and tried to follow the instructions as you have suggested. We tried our best to make this assignment as much informative as possible. We sincerely believe that it will satisfy your requirements. We however sincerely believe that this...
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...To what extent do urban areas modify their climates? (40 marks) Urban areas climate is often significantly different to the surrounding rural areas, this is why urban areas are often described as having their own “micro climate” the differences in urban climates are due to number of different factors. Urban areas often experience a phenomenon known as a heat island, this is a zone of hot air around and above an urban area which has higher temperatures than the surrounding rural areas consequently cities tend to be warmer than rural areas and the temperature becomes lower progressively as you move towards the rural area with the highest temperatures being in the city centre. Heat islands form due to a variety of factors which are present within cities and not commonly found in rural areas, firstly building material such as concrete and tarmac absorb large quantities of heat during the day, due to their dark colours, and when temperatures are cooler, at night, the heat is released gradually warming up the surrounding area, this is why the effects of the heat island are more visible at night time because the city remains warm whilst the rural areas are much cooler. There are a large amount of buildings with glass windows within the urban areas, these have a high reflective capacity and reflect heat towards the streets were it is absorbed. Another factor influencing towards to the heat island formation is the heat energy being emitted from industry due to the combustion of fossil...
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...Assignment on- “What are the interactions between Climate Change & Multinational Enterprise?” [pic] [pic] Prepared For Md. Mamoon Al Bashir Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Prepared By Group Members: Ziniya Tabassum Anwar (2010-2-10-031) Ahsan M Rahik (2010-2-10-099) Najnin Akhter (2010-2-10-079) Anower Kabir (2008-3-10-030) Farjana Akter Parul (2010-2-10-100) Course Code: ITB 301 Course Title: International Business Section-5 Submission Date 24/07/2013 [pic] EAST WEST UNIVERSITY Letter of Transmittal 24 July, 2013 Md. Mamoon Al Bashir Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Subject: Submission of Assignment on “What are the interaction between Climate Change and Multinational Enterprise?” Dear Sir, It is a great pleasure and privilege to present the assignment titled “What are the interaction between Climate Change and Multinational Enterprise” which was assigned to us as a partial requirement for the completion of this course ITB 301 (International Business). Throughout the study we have tried with the best of our capacity to accommodate as much information and relevant issues as possible and tried to follow the instructions as you have suggested. We tried our best to make this assignment as much informative as possible. We sincerely believe that it will satisfy your requirements. We however sincerely believe that this...
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...Climate Change is a long-term shift in the statistics of the weather affecting production and consumption patterns. [1] Today, we are living in a globalized world where huge changes in production and consumption patterns have dramatically affected not only the economy and the environment, but also our social conditions. [2] Changes in the climate will have an enormous impact on employment and the labor market in general. First, over 1 billion people are employed in the agricultural sector which is the second greatest source of employment worldwide after services. It is clear that climate changes such as extreme weather events, increased incidence of droughts and floods, variability in rainfall patterns, and degradation of lands will have an influence on the agricultural sector. With this, many millions of people working in the agricultural sector will have to face change in the way crops are produced or even look for new pastures elsewhere. The agricultural sector will decrease in size because of the negative effects of climate change. Nowadays, typhoons come and go and so is true with the scorching heat. These extremes damage plantations. This is the time where we are already getting too much of what we wanted. Gone are the days where there is enough rainfall, average temperature, and nice environment. Climate change upsets farmers because most of their crops are wrecked by typhoons and the increasing temperature. With that, there is a tendency that the number of farmers...
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...Beyond COP21: What does Paris mean for future climate change policy A response paper highlighting the future issues of major environmental disasters and the backdrop of what the future looks like. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Sushrut S. Vaidya (20155042) Introduction: The changes caused by the terror of the human realm revealed itself to the world at the COP21 (21st Conference Of the Parties), known otherwise as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held from the 30th of November to the 11th of December 2015. Although people’s awareness of climate change and perceptions about its effects vary at the regional and national levels, the overall change patterns illustrate how climate change is truly a global issue. The issues discussed during the conference were related to what the Earth faced because of climate changes, the result of which was the regulation of global temperatures upto 2 degrees Celsius as compared to those of pre-industrial levels. All the 196 parties that attended the conference signed the Paris Agreement, the document responsible for the regulatory measures, for the very first time. It was with the highest concern that the motion for a global change was put forth. History of COP and the start of the concern towards climate change: The history of global concern towards climate changes dates back to the late 60’s and early 70’s. In response to growing...
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...To what extent do urban areas create their own climate (40 Marks) An urban area is the region surrounding a city. Jobs are those in a non-agricultural field, making urban areas very developed causing a high density of human structures such as houses, buildings, and transport links. Urban areas contain microclimates which measures the average weather condition in a small area. Due to human activity, temperature in an urban area is a fundamental characteristic, as temperature is relatively higher compared to surrounding rural areas, named as an urban heat island. This is due to housing and buildings being constructed close together. The material used for building is non-reflective and therefore absorbs heat, also road surfaces such as tarmac and concrete have a high thermal capacity and result in large insulation due to the albedo effect, where only light surfaces reflect more heat. Therefore urban heat islands have a low albedo effect due to the dark coloured nature of the area, only 5-10% of radiation is reflected due to the dark colours. There are large amounts of buildings with glass windows within urban areas due to high building capacity, the glass contributes a high reflective capacity and therefore reflects heat towards the surfaces where it is absorbed. Average night temperature in an urban area is 4 degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding areas due to the dust and clouds acting as a blanket to reduce radiation. During the night, temperatures remain high as the buildings...
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...There is a simple saying” the challenges and opportunities are co-existed”. As a new manager, he shall find out what the major challenges and the most valuable opportunities in the chaos, to lead the company into an industry from the right road towards the right direction. Since 2008, the finance crisis has made the whole world economy completely different. The rate of unemployment keeps quite high in most of developed countries, the price of real estate dropped to the historical low in America. Then the following Euro debt crisis again pushes the weak world economy into an unprecedented difficult situation. The fallout from the Greek debt crisis will definitely impact the still weak recovery in Europe, Said Hong Pingfan, the head of the global economic monitoring center of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affaire (DESA) And the a massive aid package and unclear American economy will keep leading to a weaker euro and weaker US dollar in the medium to longer term. So the entire economic environment is not so optimistic, all different industries are being influenced more or less. Comparatively speaking, in fashion marketing, the power of purchasing is relatively reduced since Finance Crisis all over the world. According to the statistics, the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) has been kept relatively stable in the low level since finance crisis, especially in European countries and America, mainly in the developed countries (Isabella 2010). At same time, it shows the...
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...Outline for Climate Change Introduction: Why does climate change matter? Biochemically speaking, why is temperature so important? Temperature is critical to biochemical reactions, because it determines the effectiveness of the enzymes controlling the reactions. What is an ectotherm? ectotherms, organisms whose body temperature depends on the surrounding environment. What is the connection between performance and temperature in ectotherms? For these organisms, how fast they grow,1 how quickly they move,2,3 and almost everything else about their behavior and functioning is affected by external temperatures. What is the Goldilocks principle? And to what can it be applied when it comes to temperature? Goldilocks principle when the temperature is just right, enzyme activity is maximized. It is the optimum temperature, where an enzyme or things work at its best. Can be applied to enzymes, performance, population growth rates. How does temperature relate to species richness? As temperature increases the species richness (the number of species in a given area) increases So, what’s the big deal? many biological processes exhibit the same basic hump-shaped relationship with temperature, in which temperatures that are too low or too high impair or sometimes even terminate critical biological processes.1This is why climate change is the focus of so much scientific research. Part 1: Detecting climate change What is the difference between weather and climate? How is this...
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...effects of climate change which is important in dealing with the impacts of climate change that are already happening as well as preparing for future impacts (UNFCCC, 2008). Adaptation planning enables countries to generate and implement national adaptation plans so as to identify medium and long term adaptation needs. Adaptation planning is a continuous process; that is guided by the country. This process is participatory, transparent and gender sensitive in planning for current and future climate change impacts (UNFCCC, 2008; Preston et al, 2011). When generating developing adaptation plans governments, regional authorities and local communities must, together plan and decide on...
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...Climate Change and How the Media Portrays It The average educated person would define climate change as the average weather changing or global warming. It is patterns of temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind and seasons. Climate is what makes up all natural ecosystems and is what helps sustain these ecosystems. The climate change today is changing the world. It’s affecting the natural ecosystems negatively. This is because climate is tied to almost everything. The change in climate will change the way people, animals, and plants have to survive. For example, a change in the usual timing of rains or temperatures can affect when plants bloom, when certain bugs hatch, or when streams are at their highest level. This can affect pollination of crops, food for migrating birds, spawning of fish, water supplies for drinking, forest health, and much more. Many people mistake global warming and climate change to be the same thing. Although they are very similar, global warming is what causes climate change. Global warming is the rising of global temperature and ocean temperature. This is what causes the climate change events listed above. Global warming is a global event while climate change is a more regional change in the atmosphere. There are many people who think climate change is not happening. The National Academy of Science has studied climate change and confirmed that it is real and humans are causing it. According to the Climate Impacts Group at the University...
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...Rampage Prospectus Franceline Kingu 103416713 Dr. John Cappucci Media, Technology and the Environment: 40-364-30 October 20th, 2014 Westernization on a Rampage Brief Review: A great amount of how we live affects the world we live in, what I decided to focus my final term paper on was the affects of climate change and what forms of justice our world is doing to help minimize the consequences. Climate change is defined to be a statistical change in weather arrangements that exceed a period of time. When climate changes, many things are forced to change in order to adapt. What we have realized but are neglecting to make changes within our lifestyle for, is that the world is reaching what scientists are calling a “Tipping Point”, which means we have thrust and pushed the environment far enough. Thesis: Our culture, more specifically, westernization and the excessive demands of the rich and the prominent has caused our world to transform and more importantly was and is a driving force to climate change and the deterioration of animal life, human life and the worsening of our planet earth. Major Arguments: 1. Climate change has affected a major part of or world, which is animal life. Due to the drastic change in our climate over extended period of time animals have become at risk, close to extinction and that is a cry for help. Why I focused on animal life wasn’t for the obvious reason; that they are in danger and some close to extinction, rather it is in argument that...
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...WRITING ASSIGNMENT Topic: To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement. Human activity has been a major cause climate change. People have substantially contributed to the multiple direction development of the world. They have entirely composed the world better and better. However, what human have done for their environment contributing to the destroyable life in recent decades in terms of climate change. Climate change can be defined as the long- term shift in weather conditions identified by changes in temperature, precipitation, winds, and other indicators. Climate change is caused by many factors, therefore, to some extent, human activity has subsidized to the effects of climate change on people’s life with two primary causes: industrial activities, and land use changes. Firstly, the development of industry for recent year has mainly risen the dangerous level of climate change. Constantly, the huge number of Carbon dioxide has been emitted to the atmosphere by resulting from automobiles, industry, electric power plants. Electricity is considered as the main factor causing CO2. The reliable prediction is given that manufacturing electricity in the future will cause the increase CO2 emissions from 10 billion tonnes per year to 12.5 billion tonnes per year (Climate Change – The Science. 2014) . The high Carbon dioxide rate directly effects on the changing of climate process. Human-related emissions are responsible for the increase that has occurred in the...
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...Paper and Presentation Outline Global Climate Change Instructions: For your research paper and presentation, you’ll be researching global climate change. Your first assignment is to fill in the details of this outline. Here's how it will work: 1. Using this outline template, fill in the details on the open lines below.You must complete every line of the outline to receive full credit. You may add additional lines, as you see fit. 2. By Sunday, 11:59 PM (Mountain), upload your completed outlineto the Dropbox. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Outcome 1a, 2a-c, 2e, 3a-b, 4a-b, 5a, 6a-e 1) Introduction a) What is climate change? b) i) Briefly state the causes of climate change (1) (2) (3) ii) Briefly state the impact of climate change (4) (5) (6) iii) Briefly state the reaction to climate change (7) (8) (9) iv) Briefly state the potential solutions to climate change (10) (11) (12) 2) History and Causes of Climate Change c) Explain the impact of humans and other living creatures upon the environment v) Identify the impacts of human overpopulation on climate change (13) ...
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