Being poor and living with economic insecurity has emotional and physical impacts in the short and longer term.
"Ensuring that investors are getting timely, material information on climate-related impacts, including regulatory and physical impacts, is absolutely essential.
This is especially so when the science and physical impacts of global warming are telling us that the urgency to act is increasing.
It's no longer a problem we can delay facing until physical impacts become unavoidable – the government's own advisers warn of a climate domino effect on key infrastructure.
As he remembered the films that made an early impact, he zeroed in on the very real physical impacts of the 1970 Shaw Brothers film "The Chinese Boxer".
It said the financial risks and opportunities of climate change come from the physical impacts of extreme weather, changes in regulation to cut carbon emissions and the increased competition faced by fossil fuels from clean energy.
This year 92% of brands reporting to CDP – the global non-profit organisation that gathers data on environmental risk – noted risks from the physical impacts of climate change, up from 84% in 2012.
"We accept the IPCC assessment of climate change science, which has found that warming of the climate is unequivocal, the human influence is clear and physical impacts are unavoidable," said the BHP spokesman, citing the company's recent sustainability report.
There was near-unanimous agreement that the work built stronger communities: 90% said the greatest impact was of being involved – over and above more obvious physical impacts such as cleaner and greener surroundings and the regeneration of rundown areas – because it brought together people who had lived near each other for years but had never spoken.
(D) Physical impacts reported as percentage of all symptoms provided.
The physical impacts within the lightweight scoria concretes merit consideration.
