The amount of money that the World Bank is lending for fossil fuel energy projects like these — for coal in particular — is rising faster than ever, even though it said only two years ago in a policy document that climate change posed one of the greatest threats to development in poor countries.
A fuller picture could then be drawn of inequality, depletion of natural resources, financial instability and the other threats to development.Armed with better information, "structures" could then be designed to boost co-operation.
Such hazards and risks, environmental, economic and social, and climate change and its impacts are major threats to development achievements (Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2010).
Risks and threats to development of the Russian EPS sector include the Russian banking sector's reliance on foreign payment systems; entry of new foreign payment systems in the Russian market; and the still insufficient competitiveness of the Russian financial services sector.
What we know about these threats to development come from research using CDAT.
The report identified large gaps in regulatory practice and called for expansion of toxicologic testing to assess threats to development.
