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The global risks report 2015
The global risks report 2015 reported that extreme weather conditions are the second according to the degree of seriousness of threat to countries and their economies. This is the conclusion reached by scientists at the world economic forum. Non-profitable organization with headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland), which organizes annual meetings of leaders of different countries in the Swiss city of Davos, Switzerland, basing its report on a comparative analysis of the views of 900 experts.
The biggest risk, in turn, experts believe armed conflict. Natural disasters ranked sixth among the risk factors, and the inability to adapt to climate change — seventh. The biggest risk from the point of view of their consequences, not probability of occurrence, consider the water pollution and the spread of infectious diseases.
Scientists from the Institute of "5 Gyres" that explore the pollution of the oceans with plastic waste, argue that 269.000 ton of plastic waste floating in the oceans. Microplasticity garbage in different concentrations in almost all the seas and oceans, but until now had no scientific data about how much it generally floats in the world ocean. To determine this, scientists from six countries during 2007-2013 was carried out 24 expeditions to all 5 major oceanic cycles (closed systems oceanic currents in extent the oceans) and the coast of Australia, the Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean sea.
It is worth saying that today, the special attention is paid to such types of negative impacts on the environment, as emissions of pollutants, pollution of the subsoil, soils, and waste disposal. In accordance with the Laws of the Russian Federation, a negative impact on the environment is paid. Violators may be required to pay five times the penalty for ekoplatezhey. published
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©
Source: mirnt.ru/environment/otchet-o-globalnyh-riskah
The biggest risk, in turn, experts believe armed conflict. Natural disasters ranked sixth among the risk factors, and the inability to adapt to climate change — seventh. The biggest risk from the point of view of their consequences, not probability of occurrence, consider the water pollution and the spread of infectious diseases.
Scientists from the Institute of "5 Gyres" that explore the pollution of the oceans with plastic waste, argue that 269.000 ton of plastic waste floating in the oceans. Microplasticity garbage in different concentrations in almost all the seas and oceans, but until now had no scientific data about how much it generally floats in the world ocean. To determine this, scientists from six countries during 2007-2013 was carried out 24 expeditions to all 5 major oceanic cycles (closed systems oceanic currents in extent the oceans) and the coast of Australia, the Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean sea.
It is worth saying that today, the special attention is paid to such types of negative impacts on the environment, as emissions of pollutants, pollution of the subsoil, soils, and waste disposal. In accordance with the Laws of the Russian Federation, a negative impact on the environment is paid. Violators may be required to pay five times the penalty for ekoplatezhey. published
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©
Source: mirnt.ru/environment/otchet-o-globalnyh-riskah