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What is environmental risk? What are the sources of it? What are the indicators of its sustainability? These are important questions to answer for purposes of this and other discussions. This chapter describes a number of primary causes of environmental risks and indicators of environmental stability or lack thereof. It provides measures of environmental risk and sustainability of seven countries—China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, the UK, and the USA—relative to the rest of world. This serves the twofold purpose of describing the environmental risks to be mitigated and explaining how countries with some of the largest economies in the world are faring as sources and mitigators of those risks, in market terms.
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Aerosols’ influence over clouds and snow cover partially offset the forcing of well-mixed GHGs and dominate the uncertainty associated with the total anthropogenic driving of climate change (IPCC, 11/02/14: 661). Hence, confidence in the representation of processes involving clouds and aerosols remains low (IPCC, 11/01/14: SYR-18). They continue to contribute the largest uncertainty to the total RF estimate (IPCC, 11/01/14: SYR-9; IPCC, 11/02/14: 43). Effective RF attempts to measure more of the complex effects of forcing agents such as (absorptive) aerosols.
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Weiss, B., Obi, M. (2016). Environmental Risk and Sustainability. In: Environmental Risk Mitigation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33957-3_2
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