People in emerging economies showed the highest — and rising — levels of concern, and Asia is the world's most concerned region, the HSBC report found.
Consequences of landscape change, both from development and forest management practices including fire suppression, have prompted rising levels of concern for the ecological integrity of the region.
The development of new technologies and techniques for industrial carbon reduction has risen to prominence in contemporary engineering and economics studies, a trend triggered by rising levels of concern regarding climate change.
Alarming population growth, unplanned urbanization, and industrialization in the region have become the cause of concern for rising level of heavy metals in Ganga River (Singh et al. 2005; Singh and Pandey 2014).
The economic indicator provides key information concerning the rising level of costs at the manufacturing and factory level.
If that trend continues, it could ease concern over the rising level of consumer debt.
The bond market has already shown its concern at the rising level of corporate debt by increasing the rate of interest it requires on corporate bonds.
Of particular concern is the rising level of atmospheric greenhouse gases, especially CO2, resulting in global warming and ocean acidification [4], [5].
And in a news conference, Finance Minister Christian Sautter of France drew attention to a reference in the communique to concerns about the rising level of debt among American households.
