Climate Change and Global Warming

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ATENEO-REGIS MBA PROGRAM

CEBU BRANCH

FINAL PAPER

FOR

ECOMAN

“THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE and GLOBAL WARMING”

PRESENTED TO:

ENRICO MINA, MBA

PROFESSOR

PRESENTED BY:

MARY ANN S. TAPAYAN

STUDENT

Table of Contents         Page

I. Introduction 3

II. What is Climate Change? 4

III. The Science of Climate Change and Global Warming 6

IV. Impact to Economy 12

Global Impact 13

Impacts in Asia 15

Impacts in the Philippines 17

The Economics of Climate Change in the Philippines 23

A challenge we can meet 24

V. Practical Solutions to Global Warming 25

We must act now 26

What can we do? 27

VI. Conclusion 31

VII. References 32

I. Introduction

                      “Treat the earth well: it was not given

                      to you by your parents, it was loaned

                      to you by your children. We do not

                      inherit the Earth from our ancestors,

                      we borrow it from our children.”

                      -Ancient Indian Proverb-

      Scientific history shows that climate changes, my question were what were new about it? In my own perspective, there were nothing to worry about the changes if it not leads to global warming, that in a span of time it will slowly destroy our ecosystem and kill hundreds, thousands and even millions of living creature on the crust of our planet. Nowadays, the effect of climate change is quiet worrying. What made sad about it was, we, our human activities were the biggest contributing factor of this climate changes. Due to the various effects of climate changes, I will consider this issue a problem and it is not just an ordinary problem, I personally considered it the biggest problem of this generation that needs immediate attention and solution.

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