Commentary

Worldwide climate change has become a hot topic largely due to the great social, economic and environmental challenges of our time. Human activities are causing a change in climate and this in turn impact rainfall, temperatures and biodiversity.

CHICAGO – Emerging markets around the world – Brazil, China, India, and Russia, to name the largest – are slowing. One reason is that they continue to be dependent, directly or indirectly, on exports to advanced industrial countries. Slow growth there, especially in Europe, is economically depressing.