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What is Honda?
This corporation suffered a net income slump of 88% yoy (year over year) during the first period of 2011 as a result of the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami disrupting their supply chains.
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What is Sumatra-Andaman earthquake?
This earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused Sri Lanka over US$1 billion in damages, US$310 million in losses and an estimated death count ranging from 200,000 to 310,000.
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What is marginal cost?
In economics, this is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced is incremented by one unit, that is, it is the cost of producing one more unit of a good.
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What is 20%?
The eventual cost of climate change is estimated to be this percent of GDP?
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Who is Leo?
Which Oscar winner includes climate change in his speech?
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What is Home Depot?
This organization saw an increase in sales of $242 Million USD as a direct result of Hurricane Sandy with the companies New York and New Jersey regions outperforming the rest.
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What is Hurricane Katrina?
This hurricane ranked in as the sixth strongest overall to hit the United States. It was also one of the costliest with estimated property damages of US $81 billion.
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What is Free Rider Problem?
In economics, this problem occurs when those who benefit from resources, goods, or services do not pay for them, which results in an under-provision of those goods or services
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What is 1%?
If tackled promptly, the cost of climate change would cost this percent of GDP.
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What is Miami?
Due to rising water levels, this city, the home to a professional basketball, baseball, and football team, will no longer exist in 2070.
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What is SolarCity Corp?
This energy corporation grew its customer base from 48,000 to 190,000 from 2012 to 2014 and is estimating a potential energy market around $60 Billion compared to the company's current revenues of $255 million USD.
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What is the Mozambique Flood?
This disaster made many people homeless as it affected 1,400 sq km of arable land, killing 800 people and 20,000 cattle.
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What is Coase Theorm?
This theorem states that if trade in an externality is possible and there are sufficiently low transaction costs, bargaining will lead to an efficient outcome regardless of the initial allocation of property.
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What is Green House Gases?
GHG, an acronym for what, plays a significant role in climate change
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What is 206?
The average human body has this many bones in it.
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What is TESLA Motors?
By using the concepts of electric energy, This organization saw a 55% increase in sales from 2014 to 2015.
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What is the European Heat Wave? (2003)
This natural disaster created one of the hottest summers since 1540 resulting in 75% wheat crop loss in the Ukraine and a reported 14,802 casualties in France alone.
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What is Prisoner's Dilemma?
In game theory, a situation in which two players each have two options whose outcome depends crucially on the simultaneous choice made by the other, often formulated in terms of two prisoners separately deciding whether to confess to a crime.
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What is the earth's forest? (94 Hectors is greater than the size of Venezuela.)
This major ecosystem was reduced in size by 94 million hectares during the 1990s
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What is the moon?
This orbiting body is moving away from the earth at an average rate of 3.8 centimeters per year.
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What is Coca-Cola?
in 2013, this companies 10-K form stated that "changing weather patterns, along with the increased frequency or duration of extreme weather conditions, could impact the availability or increase the cost of key raw materials that the company uses to produce its products."
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What is the Afghanistan Blizzard?
In 2008, this blizzard ranked in an estimated death toll of 1,337 humans, 100,000 sheep and goats, and 350,000 cows.
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What is Pareto Efficiency?
A state of allocation of resources in which it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off
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What is Fishing?
With atmospheric concentrations of CO2 reaching 400 parts per million, this industry, calculated worldwide around $200 Billion USD, is seeing drastic changes in ecosystems and profit.
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What is ?
Professor Coggi's middle name is
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